make like a tree and leave

present singular third person makes like a tree and leaves · participle present making like a tree and leaving · participle past made like a tree and left · past made like a tree and left

1. humorousidiomaticTo leave, depart.

   See ya' later Pete, I'm making like a tree and leaving.

   2011, P. E. Van Schaick, Greasy Village, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 82

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   After all the needed malware files have been installed and all the necessary changes to the system have been made to facilitate malware persistency, the malware installer makes like a tree and leaves. Since the job of the malware installer is done, there is no more need for it to linger in the system.

   2013, C. C. Elisan, Malware, Rootkits & Botnets (Beginner's Guide), McGraw Hill, →ISBN, page 197

   In Cocklecu, gender roles are reversed, to Klim's disgust. (The queen keeps a seraglio of 300 handsome men, and Klim makes like a tree and leaves for fear of being added to them.)

   2013 August 29, S. Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 168

   Synonyms: make like a tree, make like a baby and head out, make like a banana and split, put an egg in one's shoe and beat it