make use of

make use of
   to do something taboo in connection with
   Thus to make use of prostitutes is not to find them chaste employment but to copulate regularly with them: to make use of drugs is not to control your hypertension under medical supervision but to ingest narcotics illegally; so too with firearms, where to make use of a weapon is to maim or kill:
    I saw a Jewess climb on to the fence of the ghetto, stick her head through the fence and attempt to steal turnips from a passing cart. I made use of my fire-arm. The Jewess received two fatal shots. (Deighton, 1993/1, quoting from Schoenberner's Der Gelbe Stern, translated by Susan Sweet in 1969)

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