Jan 21, 2018 18:11
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English term

Try to make that happen

English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature Literature
A guy humiliated a gay in front of everybody. The protagonist interfered and revealed that the guy also did sexual harassment to other people. Experiencing such harassment from that bad guy, many girls there agreed with the good guy. The good guy said

"There you go. Try to make that happen and shut the hell up"

So what does "Make that happen" mean in this context? I searched for the meaning and got only "To do something and complete it" But I cannot figure out what.

Please help me and thank you very much for your time

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Tomasso Jan 21, 2018:
that...refer to (groping) prev paragraph One Of Us Is Lying: the bestselling thriller - Google Books Result
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0141375647

Karen McManus - 2017 - ‎Young Adult Fiction
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From my reading ...

You have the meaning right, but you neglected some of the setup. The bad guy says that the girl tried to initiate sex with him at a party and that she seems to do this with every boy at school. He says, "If there is a guy at Bayview that you have not tried that with, I would love to meet him."
At that point, a computer nerd raises his hand. (Indicating to me that she has NOT tried that with him.)
The bad guy comments, to the girl, "There you go...." meaning that she should try to initiate sex with the computer nerd.

At least, that is how *I* read the passage.
Note from asker:
Thank you very much! You are so great!
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard : For anyone who's confused by this question, the context is in the link provided by Tomasso. It's very different to the context given by the asker.
1 hr
agree Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.
4 hrs
agree acetran
22 hrs
agree Yvonne Gallagher : pity asker couldn't give right context to begin with...
2 days 4 hrs
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