make like

Meaning

1. make like…

   to pretend to be, know or have sth in order to impress people

   He makes like he's the greatest actor of all time.

In the movies · 5

• Sorry, guys. I didn't want to make like a thing here.The One I Love2014
• And then when she comes back, make like I just pretended to forget about her?Swingers1996
• I got to make like I was notorious.The Usual Suspects1995
• Make like they were nothing.Last Night in Soho2021
• I say we make like a tree and branch...Not Another Teen Movie2001
• You can make, like, an Abraham Lincoln mouse.The House Bunny2008
• I'll make him like me.Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio2022
• He wants to make life like that.Spielberg2017

Learn it in full scenes

• Swingers1996
  • Rob Explains the No-Call Rule
  • Trent Talks Mike Into Vegas
  • Trent Schools Mike in Vegas
• Spielberg2017
  • Spielberg Hides the Shark
  • Spielberg Takes the Camera
  • Spielberg Gets His Universal Contract

From the same entry

• make as if to do
• make do
• make good
• make good
• make it
• make it with
• make the most of
• make much of
• make or break
• make of yourself
• make for
• make into