Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

make like a tree and leave

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.70 in modern English

Syllables: make -like a tree and leave
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To leave, depart.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"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.)"

Etymology

A pun on leave (“depart”) and leave (“produce leaves”) (or its more common variant, leaf).

Usage

Humorous

Inflected Forms

makes like a tree and leaves (present, singular) making like a tree and leaving (participle, present) made like a tree and left (participle, past) made like a tree and left (past)

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

Questions

What does make like a tree and leave mean?: To leave, depart.
Where does make like a tree and leave come from?: A pun on leave (“depart”) and leave (“produce leaves”) (or its more common variant, leaf).

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