单词 | after a fashion |
释义 | after a fashionSEE SYNONYMS FOR after a fashion ON THESAURUS.COM 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 “a manner of doing something,” 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. Words nearby after a fashionA.F.S., AFSCME, AFSLAET, aft, after, after a fashion, after all, after all's said and done, after a sort, after a while, afterbeat The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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