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Would you please explain the meaning of "make feelings" in the headline below?

England fans make feelings on VAR crystal clear with chant vs Switzerland

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@paok1970,

You do realize that not all published headlines are well written (and often contain grammatical and other mistakes), right? If it's a pun, it eludes me. Best case scenario, it's a Brit English idiom/slang phrase.

The headline alone isn't enough context to suss out the definition of this seemingly nonsensical turn of phrase.

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@paok1970,

"England fans make feelings on VAR crystal clear with chant vs Switzerland."

The active phrase is "make feelings clear". If feelings were not clear before, they have now been made crystal clear.

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@paok1970,

The VAR ruled out a goal, and the fans chanted ******* VAR.

That let their feelings be known alright, that they don't like VAR.

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@Jewels Vern,

It's make feelings known, it's not American English.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

It's make feelings known, it's not American English.

What does it mean? Would you please explain the above sentence/statement further?

Thank you.

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@paok1970,

JV said the active phrase was make feelings clear. Not over here, we say make feelings known and the article itself is English.

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@paok1970,

The fans are not happy with the review system. To express they weren't happy, they chanted an obscenity. If someone did not know how the fans felt, they made their feelings known. If someone was uncertain of how the fans felt, they clarified their position or made their feelings clear.

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@izzythepush,

I'm still confused. The above headline is from a British newspaper if I remember correctly and contains the word "clear" not "known".

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@paok1970,

To make something clear is to remove any confusion. It is related to the word clarify.

clar·i·fy

verb
1. make (a statement or situation) less confused and more clearly comprehensible.
"the report managed to clarify the government's position"
synonyms: make clear, shed light on, throw light on, elucidate, illuminate, make plain, make simple, simplify;

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@paok1970,

That's because it's part of the phrase crystal clear. That adds a lot of emphasis.

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@izzythepush,

Still confused. To recapitulate/recap: the headline is written in British English but contains the AmE expression "to make something crystal clear " while in England you say "to make something known". Am I right or am I daydreaming? Thanks for your patience.

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@paok1970,

Crystal clear is not just American English.

It not to make something known, it's to make your feelings known, it's specific.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

It not to make something known,

I'm sorry to bother you again with another question but I don't understand the part quoted above. Did you mean to write, "It is not to make something known,....."? Was it a typo? If not, please explain/clarify. Thank you.

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@izzythepush,

So what? The meaning is the same.

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@paok1970,

It was a typo.

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@Jewels Vern,

The phrasing isn't. It makes a big difference when someone wants to differentiate between English and American English.

Certain phrases/idioms are unique to regions, and when someone like yourself speaks with authority from a point of ignorance you end up confusing people.

Unlike you, I don't make such sweeping statements I say how English is spoken in England. I make it clear that the Americans/Australians/Jamaicans/Africans may express things differently.

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@izzythepush,

You are trying to manufacture confusion where none exists.

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@Jewels Vern,

Bollocks I am. You're trying to speak with authority about all English variants instead of stating you're talking about American English only. Which to be fair a lot of other Americans already do, like Tsarsepan.

tsarstepan wrote:

If it's a pun, it eludes me. Best case scenario, it's a Brit English idiom/slang phrase.

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