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after a fashion
Idioms and Phrases
Also, after a sort . Somehow or other; not very well, as in John can read music, after a fashion , or He managed to paint the house after a sort . The first phrase, in which fashion means 鈥渁 manner of doing something,鈥 has been so used since the mid-1800s, when it replaced in a fashion . The variant dates from the mid-1500s. Also see in a way ; (somehow) or other .Example Sentences
A solitary, bookish boy whose dreams came true, after a fashion, who proved that movies really can change your life 鈥 albeit in ways you can never quite plan on.
Nevertheless, true crime can be a passive teacher in the same way all entertainment is, after a fashion.
She was working as a model in Manhattan when a friend arranged for them to meet the rock band after a fashion show, her legal documents say.
It鈥檚 not writing, but after a fashion, it is creating.
It also replicates, after a fashion, some of the crediting issues many TikTok creators have protested.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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