Act out
Act out verb - To behave badly.
Be like
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- It'd be like telling your kids about how Satan will come to blow up them and everyone they love if they act out... only Satan's a hot blond chick in power armor.
Source: Memetic Badass / Video Games -
Dream Sequence: "Mary's Three Husbands" has Lou, Murray, and Ted each imagining what it would be like to be married to Mary, which breaks the fourth wall in that Mary refuses to act out Ted's dream of a romantic honeymoon.
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Be like and Act out. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/act_out/be_like
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