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look like

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look like someone or something

to resemble someone or something. You look like my cousin Fred. This one looks like an apple.

See also: like, look

look like something

to give the appearance of predicting (something). The sky looks like rain. No, it looks like snow. Oh, oh. This looks like trouble. Let's go.

See also: like, look

look like something

(spoken)

to seem likely that something will happen It looks like the unusually warm weather we've been having may be coming to an end.

See also: like, look

look like

1. Have the appearance of, as in This letter looks like an acceptance. [c. 1400]

2. it looks like. It seems likely that, as in It looks like they'll invite us to dinner. [Colloquial; c. 1900] Also see the subsequent idioms beginning with look like.

See also: like, look