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Also, make as though ; make like . Behave as if, pretend that. For example, Jean made as if she really liked the soup , or Dad made as though he had not heard them , or She makes like she's a really important person . The first two usages date from the early 1500s; the third, a colloquialism, dates from the late 1800s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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