Call him up and be like …
Overheard on Locust Walk: "What you need to do is call him up and be like, 'why are you doing this to me?'"
Something about this struck me — maybe it's because I'm old enough that I still think of be like as a description of behavior associated with speaking, rather than a simple synonym for say. But I should have know better — {"call him up and be like"} gets 7,590 web hits on Google, which is a lot for a six-word sequence.
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