make a day/night/evening/weekend of it

Definition

to make an activity longer or combine a series of activities so that they last for the whole of that particular period of time

Let's make an evening of it and catch the last train home.

We don't get out often so we thought we'd make a day of it.

(Definition of make a day/night/evening/weekend of it from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Synonyms and related words:

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