make like a banana and split

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A pun on banana split and split (to depart).

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make like a banana and split (third-person singular simple present makes like a banana and splits, present participle making like a banana and splitting, simple past and past participle made like a banana and split)

  1. (idiomatic, humorous) To leave, depart.
    • 2010 April 6, Sandra Kring, How High the Moon, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 56:
      “Don't go anywhere,” she said, like she was a mind reader and could tell that I was already thinking that the second she turned around, me and Charlie should make like a banana and split.
    • 2021 June 29, Jason Mott, Hell of a Book, Penguin, →ISBN, page 6:
      if he's gone, maybe we should make like a banana and split. We could pack it all up and head out west somewhere.

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