to be beaten in a competition or an argument.

I've given up arguing with my big brother because I always come off second best.

• made up out of whole cloth
• magic moment
• magic touch
• magic wand
• main drag
• make a bad fist of
• make a bad fist of doing something
• make a bad fist of something
• make a beeline for
• make a beeline for someone
• make a beeline for something
• make a big thing of
• make a big thing of something
• make a big thing out of
• make a big thing out of something
• make a case for
• make a case for doing something
• make a case for something
• make a clean breast of it
• make a [day/night/weekend etc.] of it
• make a day of it
• make a dent in
• make a dent in something
• make a difference
• make a face