make like a tree and leave

A pun on leave (“depart”) and leave (“produce leaves”) (or its more common variant, leaf).

• "See ya' later Pete, I'm making like a tree and leaving."
• "After all the needed malware files have been installed and all the necessary changes to the system have been made to facilitate malware persistency, the malware installer makes like a tree and leaves. Since the job of the malware installer is done, there is no more need for it to linger in the system."
• "In Cocklecu, gender roles are reversed, to Klim's disgust. (The queen keeps a seraglio of 300 handsome men, and Klim makes like a tree and leaves for fear of being added to them.)"

• make like a tree
• make like a baby and head out
• make like a banana and split
• put an egg in one's shoe and beat it