skulduggery or skullduggery/skulʹdugəri/ noun

• make a pitch for
• make a play for
• make a point of
• make a spectacle of oneself
• make a splash
• make a virtue of necessity
• make away/off with
• make believe
• make-believe
• make (both) ends meet
• make capital out of
• make common cause with
• make do
• make eyes at
• make fish of one and flesh of the other
• make free with
• make friends
• make fun of/poke fun at
• make good
• make haste
• make hay of
• make hay while the sun shines
• make heavy weather/make heavy weather of
• make it
• make it snappy!