make like a tree and leave
To leave, depart.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“This party is boring, so let's make like a tree and leave.”
“The movie was terrible, so we decided to make like a tree and leave before the final scene.”
“Realizing the conversation had turned hostile, he chose to make like a tree and leave rather than engage in a pointless argument.”
A pun on the double meaning of leave, functioning as both the verb to depart and the verb to produce leaves, or the noun leaf. The expression relies upon the phonetic identity of the two terms to achieve its effect.
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absence makes the heart grow fonder
One feels more love or affection for those one loves when parted from them.
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and the like
And other similar items; et cetera.
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bark up the wrong tree
To take the wrong approach to a situation; to follow a false lead; to attempt to solve a problem using mistaken assumptions about its true nature.
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be like
To say.
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built like a brick outhouse
Synonym of built like a brick shithouse.
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built like a brick shipyard
Synonym of built like a brick shithouse.
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built like a brick shithouse
Of a man, having a muscular body, particularly with well-developed muscles of the chest, arms and abdominals.
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cannot make it
Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.
Last updated August 10, 2026