like

1. interj. an emphatic or meaningless word that, when said frequently, marks the speaker as speaking in a very casual or slangy mode. (see also like, you know. Used in writing only for effect.) This is, like, so silly!

2. interj. a particle meaning roughly saying. (Always with some form of be. Never used in formal writing.) And I’m like, “Well, you should have put your hat on!”

See:

(as) (a)like as (two) peas in a pod
(one's) (hand)writing is like chicken scratch
a breath of fresh air
a grin like a Cheshire cat
all over someone like a cheap suit
and stuff like that
and stuff like that there
and the like
anything like
as I was saying
as like as not
avoid (someone or something) like the plague
avoid like the plague
back of one's hand
be (like) a bird in a gilded cage
be as/like oil and water
be built like a brick shithouse
be built like a tank
be done like a (dog's) dinner
be done like a dinner
be down on (one) like a ton of bricks
be down on like a ton of bricks
be dropping like flies
be like a bear with a sore head
be like a bull in a china shop
be like a cat on a hot tin roof
be like a child in a sweetshop
be like a deer caught in the headlights
be like a dog with a bone
be like a dog with two tails
be like a fish out of water
be like a kid in a candy store
be like a red flag to a bull
be like a red rag to a bull
be like a spare prick at a wedding
be like Fort Knox
be like herding cats
be like looking for a needle in a haystack
be like oil and water
be like painting the Forth Bridge
be like rearranging (the) deckchairs on the Titanic
be like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic
be like ships in the night
be like ships that pass in the night
be like taking candy from a baby
be like talking to a brick wall
be like two peas in a pod
be like watching grass grow
be like watching paint dry
be of like mind
be off like a prom dress (in May)
be out like a light
be packed like sardines
be played like a fiddle
be squashed (in) like sardines
be stuffed like a turkey
beef to (the) heel like a Mullingar heifer
birds of a feather (flock together)
breed like rabbits
built like a brick outhouse
built like a brick shithouse
built like a tank
bull in a china shop
candidate for a pair of wings
case of
cling like shit to a shovel
come across like
come on like gangbusters
come on strong
come out smelling like a rose
come out smelling of roses
come up roses
come up smelling like a rose
crazy like a fox
cry like a baby
curses, like chickens, come home to roost
cut through like a knife through butter
die like Roland
done up like a dog's dinner
Don't even look like
drawn like a moth to a flame
drink like a fish
drop like a hot brick
drop like a hot potato
drop like flies
drop someone/something like a hot potato
Dutch uncle
eat like a bird
eat like a horse
eat like a pig
eyes like saucers
eyes like two burnt holes in a blanket
feel (like) (one)self
feel like
feel like a million
feel like a million bucks
feel like a million dollars
feel like a new man/woman
feel like a new person
feel like doing
feel like oneself
feel like two cents
fight like cat and dog
fight like hell
fight like Kilkenny cats
fish out of water, a
fit like a glove
flat out like a lizard drinking
flourish like a green bay tree
fold like a cheap suitcase
for all the world like
for two cents
fox guarding the henhouse
fuck like bunnies
get along
get on like a house afire
get on like a house on fire
get played like a fiddle
go at like a boy killing snakes
go down like a lead balloon
go down like ninepins
go like a bomb
go like a rocket
go like clockwork
go like hot cakes
go like lightning
go like the wind
go out like a light
go over
go over like a lead balloon
go through
go through like a dose of salts
go through one
go through someone like a dose of salts
go through someone like a dose of the salts
grin like a Cheshire cat
grow like Topsy
hang on like grim death
hate like sin
have (hand)writing like chicken scratch
have a face like a wet weekend
have a face like thunder
have a memory like a sieve
have a memory like an elephant
have a mind like a sieve
have a mind like a steel trap
have eyes like a hawk
hell has no fury like a woman scorned
Hell hath no fury like a (certain type of person) scorned
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
hit like a ton of bricks
hot potato
How bout them apples?
How do you like school?
How do you like that?
How do you like them apples!
How do you like this weather?
hung like a bull
I don't want to sound like a busybody, but
I felt like a penny waiting for change
I would like you to meet
I'd like a word with you. and Could I have a word with you?
I'd like to speak to
I'd like you to meet
if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
If it looks like a duck and walks etc. like a duck, it is a duck
If you don't like it, lump it
I'm like you
in clover
in like Flynn
just like that
kick like a mule
know like a book
know like the back of hand
know like the palm of hand
laugh like a drain
lie like a rug
lie like a tombstone
life is like a box of chocolates
like
like (one's) life depends on it
like a bat out of hell
like a beached whale
like a bear with a sore head
like a blind dog in a meat market
like a bolt from the blue
like a bolt out of the blue
like a book
like a broken record
like a bull at a gate
like a bump on a log
like a can of corn
like a cat in a strange garret
like a cat on hot bricks
like a champ
like a chicken with its head cut off
like a chicken with the pip
like a deer in (the) headlights
like a dog with two tails
like a dog's breakfast
like a dog's dinner
like a dream
like a drowned rat
like a drunken sailor
like a fish out of water
like a flash
like a headless chicken
like a house
like a house afire
like a house on fire
like a kid with a new toy
like a lamb
like a lamb to the slaughter
like a lost soul
like a man possessed
like a million
like a million bucks
like a million dollars
like a shag on a rock
like a shot
like a streak
like a thief in the night
like a three-ring circus
like a ton of bricks
like an owl in an ivy bush
like anything
like as not
like as two peas in a pod
like attracts like
like back
like blue blazes
Like breeds like
like cheese at four pence
like clockwork
like crazy
like death
like death warmed over
like death warmed up
like falling off (of) a log
like father, like son
like fighting snakes
like flies to manure
like for like
like fun
like fury
like gangbusters
like gold dust
like greased lightning
like hell
like hell and high lightning
Like hell!
like herding frogs
like hot cakes, go
Like I care
Like I really give a shit!
like I said
like it or lump it
Like it or lump it!
like it or not
like it was going out of style
Like it’s such a big deal
like it's going out of fashion
Like it's such a big deal!
like lambs to the slaughter
like looking for a needle in a haystack
like mad
Like mother, like daughter
like moths to a flame
like nailing jelly to the wall
like nobody’s business
like nobody's business
like nothing on earth
like one of the family
like peas in a pod
like piffy on a rock bun
like piffy on a rock cake
like pigs in clover
like pigs to the slaughter
like pulling teeth
like rats abandoning a sinking ship
like rats deserting a sinking ship
like rats from a sinking ship
like rolling off (of) a log
like shelling peas
like shooting fish in a barrel
like sixty
like stealing acorns from a blind pig
like stink
like taking candy from a baby
like talking to a wall
like that
like the cat that got the cream
like the clappers
like the devil
like the sound of (one's) own voice
like the white on rice
like the wind
like there ain't no tomorrow
like there was no tomorrow
like there were no tomorrow
like there's no tomorrow
like to
like to hear oneself talk
like tryin' to scratch your ear with your elbow
like turkeys voting for Christmas
like water off a duck's back
like wildfire
like, you know
likes of
likes of, the
live like a king
live like fighting cocks
long shot
look like
look like a candidate for a pair of wings Go to a
look like a drowned rat
look like a million bucks
look like a million dollars
look like a ringer
look like a saddle on a sow
look like death
look like something the cat brought in
look like something the cat dragged in
look like the cat dragged in
look like the cat that ate the canary
look like the cat that swallowed the canary
make as if
make like
make like a banana and split
make like a tree and leave
make like someone/something
make out like a bandit
make seem like a picnic
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb
marked man
mind like a steel trap, have a
money for jam
money for old rope
more like it
need (something) like a fish needs a bicycle
need like a hole in the head
no fool like an old fool, there's
no time like the present
no time like the present, there's
not anything like
not feeling oneself
nothing like
Nothing succeeds like success
off like a prom dress (in May)
off like a shot
on earth
oneself again
open book
or something (like that)
out cold
out like a light
pack like sardines
packed in like sardines
packed like sardines
pee like a racehorse
piss like a racehorse
play (someone) like a fiddle
play like
Promises are like piecrust, made to be broken
purr like a cat
put (one's) pants on one leg at a time (just like everybody else)
put (one's) trousers on one leg at a time (just like everybody else)
puts (one's) trousers on one leg at a time (just like everybody else)
putty in hands
quake in one's boots
quake like a leaf
quick like a bunny
Rats abandon a sinking ship
read like a book
ringer
run around like a blue-arsed fly
run around like a chicken with its head cut off and run in circles
run like clockwork
run like the wind
seem like
sell like hotcakes
shake like a leaf
shake like an aspen leaf
shoot through like a Bondi tram
shut up like a clam
sing like a canary
sink like a stone
sit like piffy on a rock bun
sit like piffy on a rock cake
sitting duck
sleep like a
sleep like a baby
sleep like a log
sleep like a top
smell like a rose
smelling like a rose
smiling like a Cheshire cat
smoke like a chimney
something like
sound as if
sound like a broken record
Sounds like a winner!
spend like a sailor (on (shore) leave)
spend money like a drunken sailor
spend money like it's going out of style
spend money like water
spread like wildfire
spring up like mushrooms
squash (someone or something) (in) like sardines
squashed (in) like sardines
squeal like a stuck pig
squint like a bag of nails
stand out like a sore thumb
stick like shit to a shovel
stick out
stick out like a sore thumb
stuffed like a turkey
swear like a sailor
swear like a trooper
sweat like a pig
take it like a man
take to
take to like a duck to water
talk like a nut
talk like an apothecary
talk to
tap dance like mad
tap-dance like mad
taste like
taste like more
Tell it like it is
Tell it like it is!
That's more like it
the like
the likes of
There's no fool like an old fool
There's no place like home
There's no time like the present
They don't make them like they used to
treat like
treat like dirt
treat like muck
turn up
turn up like a bad penny
wail like a banshee
watch like a hawk
what are you like
What would you like to drink?
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
work like a beaver
work like a charm
work like a dog
work like magic
would like
you look like a million

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Alexis	[ə'leksis]
Praskovya	prah-SKOV-yah	Russian
Carnes	[ka:nz]
Cher	SHER	English
Bettina (2)	bet-TEE-nah	Italian
Balderston	['bɔ:ldəstəun]