Phrase info Synonyms

like that

Speech parts

1. like that - Adjective

2. like that - Phrase

Meaning

like that (not comparable)

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Gay; homosexual.
Synonym: that way

Used adverbially or adjectivally to indicate similitude, similarity, equivalent or comparable quality
(adverbial) In such, the same, a similar way, in that particular manner
Synonyms: like so, that way
We don't talk like that around here.
I can't believe anyone past the age of six would behave like that in public.
It happened just like that.

(adjectival) Of the same, a similar, that particular kind.
Synonyms: such, of the kind/of that kind, of the sort/of that sort, of the like, of that ilk
We don't say stuff like that around here.
I've never seen anything like that in my life.

(adverbial) suddenly; unexpectedly.
Synonyms: just like that, (very informal) bam, wham, all of a sudden
Near-synonym: out of nowhere
He was playing in the yard and, then, like that, he was gone.

(interjectional) Used to indicate agreement with another speaker's statement.
Synonym: what he said
"And then the truck turned, the box fell out the back, and the truck just kept going." / "Yea, like that."

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. Bill Shankly

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it. Boris Yeltsin

You become like that which you own. Lebanese Proverb

The folly of a man is not broadcast like that of a woman. Cameroon Proverb

The difference between them is like that between sky and earth. Hungarian Proverb

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