'it' in take it easy / make it up to

[Hansman]

Take it easy
make it up to someone

Is there no specific meaning in 'it' in the expressions or what does the 'it' mean in them?

What do you native English speakers think?

 

[Tarheel]

Take it easy - relax

Make it up to someone - Apologize for something

There is no point to taking a word out of an expression and asking what it means by itself.

 

[Hansman]

Thank you so much.
How about 'take it seriously' and 'take it personally'?
Here in the expressions, unlike the 'it' in 'take it easy', 'it' here means something we know and it is a pronoun, right?

 

[tedmc]

Thank you so much.
How about 'take it seriously' and 'take it personally'?
Here in the expressions, unlike the 'it' in 'take it easy', 'it' here means something we know and it is a pronoun, right?

You can take "it" to mean "things".

 

[jutfrank]

Take it easy
make it up to someone

Is there no specific meaning in 'it' in the expressions or what does the 'it' mean in them?

No, there's no specific reference to it in those phrases. Think of it as a dummy, or as post #4 says, replace it with 'things'.

How about 'take it seriously' and 'take it personally'?
Here in the expressions, unlike the 'it' in 'take it easy', 'it' here means something we know and it is a pronoun, right?

That's probably right, yes. You'd need to provide more context for us to be certain but yes, it's likely that it means something in these expressions.

 

[emsr2d2]

1. Take it easy
2. Make it up to someone

When you give us more than one phrase to look at, please number them. Ideally, use them in a complete sentence.

Is there no specific meaning in 'it' in the expressions or what does the 'it' mean in them?

This is an unnecessarily wordy way of asking "What does "it" mean in those expressions, if anything?"

What do you native English speakers think?

There's no need for this. You asked your question in the previous line.

 

[aniasjames]

Take it easy - Here, "it" doesn’t refer to anything concrete. The phrase just means "relax" or "don't stress." The "it" is part of a fixed expression and doesn't have an independent meaning.

Make it up to someone - In this case, "it" vaguely represents a mistake, a wrongdoing, or something you need to compensate for. While "it" doesn’t have a specific meaning by itself, the phrase as a whole means "to compensate for something" or "to do something nice to make up for a past action.

 

[teechar]

Take it easy - Here, "it" doesn’t refer to anything concrete. The phrase just means "relax" or "don't stress." The "it" is part of a fixed expression and doesn't have an independent meaning.

Did you actually read the above posts, in particular #4?

Make it up to someone - In this case, "it" vaguely represents a mistake, a wrongdoing, or something you need to compensate for.

No. That is incorrect. You're implying that "make it up to someone" equates to "make a mistake/wrongdoing up to someone", which is clearly not what the expression means.