make like a tree and leave

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,humorous)Toleave,depart.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 it2011, P. E. Van Schaick,Greasy Village, Lulu.com,→ISBN,page82:See ya' later Pete, I'mmaking like a tree and leaving.2013, C. C. Elisan,Malware, Rootkits & Botnets(Beginner's Guide), McGraw Hill,→ISBN,page197: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 installermakes 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.2013August 29, S. Moore,The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800, Bloomsbury,→ISBN,page168:In Cocklecu, gender roles are reversed, to Klim's disgust. (The queen keeps a seraglio of 300 handsome men, and Klimmakes like a tree and leavesfor fear of being added to them.)

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