单词 | be (all) of a piece |
释义 | be (all) of a piece From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbe (all) of a piecebe (all) of a piecea) SAMEif the things someone says or does are all of a piece, they are part of the typical behaviour of that personbe (all) of a piece with Sexist language is all of a piece with the way some men treat women. b) SAMEto be the same or similar in all parts The architecture here is all of a piece. → pieceExamples from the Corpusbe (all) of a piece• My body was all of a piece, it did not have any seams.• It was all of a piece with them.• It was of a piece with the neglected timber, the weedy gravel and the minatory notices which guarded the bounds.• Murray's sensitive readings of Marvell's poetry argue that the life is of a piece with the work.• But it really is all of a piece in the end.• Lehane does, but then that is of a piece with the rest of this marvellous book. |
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