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I read a sentence in a english-korean dictionary, " How to make a friend of an enemy".
I'm confused why preposition 'of' is used in the sentence.
Does "How to make a friend of an enemy" mean " How to Turn an enemy into a friend " ?
What is the exact meaning of the preposition "of" in the sentence?
As you guessed,
How to make a friend of an enemy
does mean "How to turn an enemy into a friend". In this case, "of" is replacing the words "out of", so the phrase is the same as:
How to make a friend out of an enemy
