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

Yea, and if they be helpful to one person in a hundred, they make as if they could cure every one.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John

Her father and mother don't even guess at it, and we must make as if we didn't.

From Cousin Phillis by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Related Words

• imitate
• impersonate
• purport
• suppose