make like a tree and leave

Verb

make like a tree and leave (third-person singular simple present makes like a tree and leaves, present participle making like a tree and leaving, simple past and past participle made like a tree and left)

1. (humorous, idiomatic) To leave, depart.
   • See ya' later Pete, I'm making like a tree and leaving.2011, P. E. Van Schaick, Greasy Village, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 82
   • 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...2013, C. C. Elisan, Malware, Rootkits & Botnets (Beginner's Guide), McGraw Hill, →ISBN, page 197

   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