Weird English Phrase no’ 42488.
Someone said “What time do you make it”
Make what?
Where’d this bizarre phrase come from?
Wall, squinting at the sun, seems to be bout 4. Wadatink?
One meaning of “make” is “to compute or estimate to be : find by calculation to be,” as in “I make it 23 miles to the border from here.” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary 1363 (1993) s.v. make.