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Idiom

be like

Meaning

To say.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“She was like, I cannot go to the party tonight.”

“I told him the news, and he was like, are you sure that is true?”

“When I asked for his opinion on the matter, he was like, it is far too complicated to explain in such a short time.”

Examples

simple

“She was like, I cannot go to the party tonight.”

contextual

“I told him the news, and he was like, are you sure that is true?”

complex

“When I asked for his opinion on the matter, he was like, it is far too complicated to explain in such a short time.”

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