Despite the heavy traffic, we were making good time and expected to arrive before dinner.

By making no bones about the company's financial mistakes, she maintained the board's trust.

The professor makes no bones about preferring students who participate actively in class.

When the argument starts, Mark makes oneself scarce to avoid being dragged into it.

The project's collapse was largely of one's own making, the inevitable outcome of cutting corners and ignoring expert advice.

After weeks of suspicion, Daniel finally makes a clean breast, admitting he lost the documents.

After weeks of avoiding the subject, he finally broke down, making a clean breast of his part in the misdeed.

She wasn't making head or tail of the instructions, so she watched a tutorial video.

Rather than complain about the canceled trip, she started making a virtue of necessity by planning a cozy staycation.

When faced with budget cuts, the committee makes a virtue of necessity by prioritizing essential services.