be something of a sth
informalC2 used to describe a person or thing in a way that is partly true but not completely or exactly:
It came as something of a surprise.
He has a reputation as something of a troublemaker.
I have a biology question for you - I hear you're something of an expert.
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Approximate
- (a) sort of idiom
- -ish
- about
- approx
- approximate
- approximately
- effect
- loosely
- maybe
- more
- more or less idiom
- or so idiom
- round
- rule
- sense
- something
- something like 96 percent, half, etc. idiom
- somewhere
- sort
- sorta
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