1. Home
2. Idioms
3. make like a tree and leave

make like a tree and leave

---

---

make like a tree and leave

Sl. to leave; to depart. (Jocular; a pun on the leaf of a tree.) I have to leave now. It's time to make like a tree and leave. Hey, Jane. Don't you have an appointment somewhere? Why don't you make like a tree and leave?

See also: and, leave, like, make, tree

make like a tree and leave

in. to leave; to depart. (A pun on the leaf of a tree.) Hey, Jane. Don’t you have an appointment somewhere? Why don’t you make like a tree and leave?

See also: and, leave, like, make, tree