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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make as if

This is a film McElwee feels compelled to make, as if it were something living inside of him that had to be excised by any means necessary.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

He would laugh and shout when taken on the lagoon in the dinghy, and make as if to jump into the water to get at the bright-coloured corals below.

From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Related Words

• imitate
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