"make a fist of" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a fist of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a fist of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a fist of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a fist of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a fist of"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He had a go at the restaurant business and made a fairly decent fist of it.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Stephen Griffin, Ken Dodd: The Biography:",
          "text": "As Dodd – perhaps the only contemporary entertainer who might have made a fist of it – has discovered, in order to survive in a pitiless, hostile environment, you really can't beat a good drum.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do (something) reasonably successfully."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_a_fist_of-en-verb-53sKu0Zr",
      "links": [
        [
          "reasonably",
          "reasonably"
        ],
        [
          "successfully",
          "successfully"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) To do (something) reasonably successfully."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "make a good fist of"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a fist of"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a fist of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a fist of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a fist of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a fist of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a fist of"
      },
      "expansion": "make a fist of (third-person singular simple present makes a fist of, present participle making a fist of, simple past and past participle made a fist of)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English idioms",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He had a go at the restaurant business and made a fairly decent fist of it.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Stephen Griffin, Ken Dodd: The Biography:",
          "text": "As Dodd – perhaps the only contemporary entertainer who might have made a fist of it – has discovered, in order to survive in a pitiless, hostile environment, you really can't beat a good drum.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To do (something) reasonably successfully."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reasonably",
          "reasonably"
        ],
        [
          "successfully",
          "successfully"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) To do (something) reasonably successfully."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "make a good fist of"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a fist of"
}