Meaning of make like a tree and leave | Babel Free

Definitions

To leave, depart.

humorous, idiomatic

Examples

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

“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.”

“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.)”

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