make one's bow

make one's bow (third-person singular simple present makes one's bow, present participle making one's bow, simple past and past participle made one's bow)

1. To bow (respectful gesture).
2. (idiomatic) To debut.

   The new product will make its bow on the world market this summer.

   • 1832, “Literary Notices”, in The Rail-Road Journal‎, volume 1, number 1, page 123:

     The first named one, it will be observed, is but a debutant. It makes its bow in a drab-colored Quaker-looking dress, and barring a lively McGrawler-like critique upon " Lewis' Poems," is staid and professorial in its tone.

• take a bow

• Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take