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| Subject | English | Russian |
| Makarov. | he makes it up as he goes along | он это выдумывает на ходу |
| gen. | make it up as one goes along | импровизировать (VLZ_58) |
| gen. | make it up as you go along | сочинять на ходу (TFPearce) |
| idiom. | make up as goes along | импровизировать (None of us really knew how to play the game, so we just made it up as we went along. VLZ_58) |
| idiom. | make up as goes along | сочинять на ходу (I completely forgot the rest of my speech halfway through, so I just started making the rest up as I went along. VLZ_58) |
| gen. | make it up as one goes along | придумывать на ходу (I just made all that stuff up as I went along – я все это на ходу выдумал Рина Грант) |
| gen. | make something up as you go along | выдумывать на ходу (Taras) |
| gen. | make something up as you go along | импровизировать на ходу (- You don't have a plan, do you? You're making this up as you go along. – I managed to get us this far. – But you have no idea where to go from here. Taras) |