make like

idiom

US, informal

1

: to pretend to be (someone or something)

He made like a rooster and strutted across the stage.

2

: to act in a way that does not show one's true feelings

He made like he didn't care.

Examples of make like in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Podcasts have always come in a multitude of styles—there’s the stuff that takes a long time to make like documentary series and multi-part audiofiction, there’s the interview shows, comedy and celebrity chatcasts, and now even AI personalities hosting niche slop. —Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025

Lamenting the state of life in a post-pandemic world, Peck offers an alternative to the dismay and disconnection of modernity with a dreamy, escapist country melody that offers to make like the title and simply float off into the distance. —Stephen Daw, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025

And while the end result was once again pretty anti-climactic, there were actually some other notable things happening in episode 5 of Survivor 49, so let’s make like Nate and MC on the sandbags and get to work. —Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025

Now make like Dakota Johnson and grab a pair of Le Specs in every color. —Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 10 July 2025

Rhymes for make like

• businesslike
• ladylike
• motorbike
• workmanlike
• alike
• belike
• birdlike
• catlike
• childlike
• christlike
• deathlike
• dislike