make as if

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

The following week, Ron listed several changes he said I needed to make, as if he were some sort of petite Professor Higgins molding my coarse Eliza Doolittle.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2016

Friends mean well, or make as if they do.

From Time Magazine Archive

This time Bigwig decided to make as if to go.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

As she stood out into the roads and began to increase her speed, he directed the captain of the tug to steam forward and make as if to cross her bows.

From The Stolen Singer by Bellinger, Martha Idell Fletcher

Signior, what a buzzing you make, as if you were a fly at Bartholomew-tyde at a Butchers stall: doe you think I am deafe?

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Related Words

• imitate
• impersonate
• purport
• suppose