make yourself available

make yourself available
   to indicate promiscuity
   Not a politician modestly suggesting he be chosen as a candidate but a woman signalling sexual desire to a man:
    He... would have toyed with her and cast her aside... if she had been callow enough to make herself immediately available to him. (W. Smith, 1979)

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