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what's the meaning of “make oneself very much” Actually it comes from an article title: Home Swede home: Bizarre pictures show how IKEA's customers in China make themselves very much at home

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If you make yourself at home, it means you behave as if you are in your own home. If I make myself at home at IKEA, it might mean that I use the furniture as if it were mine; perhaps I lie down and take a nap on the bed, sit in a recliner and put my feet up and read the newspaper, sit down and eat a snack at the kitchen table. As Su.Ki explained, "very much" emphasizes how much the customers are making themselves at home.
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The problem here is that you are dividing up the sentence wrongly : “make oneself very much” means nothing at all. The 'very much' doesn't go with 'customers' - it goes with the phrase 'at home'. The basic phrase here is: "Customers make themselves at home." The adverbial phrase 'very much' is modifying another adverbial phrase 'at home.'. It means that the customers are not just making themselves 'at home' - they are making themselves 'very much at home'.
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You need to provide the rest of the sentence. Does it end with an adjective?
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Is the whole sentence "Make oneself very much give up the idea forever"? I think "very much" here modifies "give up. so i guess the meaning is: it is more likely you will give up the idea forever.

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