[HPFGU-OTChatter] Another Britspeak need some help WAS Re: Peeling Sprouts?

[Ladi lyndi]

Valky wrote:
 
HI all,

On the main list, someone asked for an explanation of "after a
fashion". Since I am Aussie, not British exactly, I couldn't give an
origin for the saying, but I did my best to explain the meaning. 


Lynn:
 
This is a phrase used in the US as well though perhaps by more mature people.  I couldn't tell you the origin of the phrase and it's not on any of the word origin sites I checked. 
 
Some definitions for fashion are:
 
noun: how something is done or how it happensverb: make out of components (often in an improvising manner)noun: characteristic or habitual practicenoun: the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
 
How I've used it and I believe it is being used here is to describe something that happened but not that directly.  Dumbledore did have a drink and return - after a fashion.  What's ommitted is that he and Harry apparated to a place, swam icy water into a cave, took a boat over a pond in which dead bodies were floating, then Dumbledore had a poisoned drink, grabbed the locket, shot fire at the dead bodies coming at he and Harry, took the boat back, swam some more, apparated back to Hogsmeade and then returned.
 
Anyway, that's how I've always used and have understood "after a fashion" to be used.
 
 


 

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