"Make like a tree and leave" nghĩa là gì?

Photo by Nils Nedel

"Make like a tree and leave" = làm như một khúc gỗ và rời đi (cách chơi chữ của leaf) -> cách nói hài hước khi rời đi ngay lập tức và vội vã. 

Ví dụ 
When your round is over, make like a tree and leave. Don’t use the putting green, don’t hang around at the clubhouse door for a chat, don’t go for a browse of the pro shop. Hop in the car and hit the road.

“What’s that they say? ’Make like a tree and leave? That’s what the GreenMarket is doing,” explains Community Events Manager Mary Pinak. The Mayor’s Office of Sustainability is offering up to two Florida native or Florida-friendly trees to each city address, as part of its initiative to plant 10,000 trees in ten years. Between that goal, and “the fact that Earth Day is April 22, this seemed to be a good opportunity to take a piece of the GreenMarket home.” 

 DPW wanted to replace the old trees with new, less troublesome specimens (mẫu vật, hạng người/loại người), although the proposal does not call for replacing every tree the city wants removed. Unsurprisingly, many business owners, residents, and frequent visitors to the neighborhood demanded that the city make like a tree and leave with those plans, calling for the preservation of the decades-old plantings. 

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