along the lines of

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along the lines of something also along those lines

similar in type I can't remember exactly what words he used but it was something along those lines. I was thinking of doing a dinner party along the lines of that meal I cooked for Annie and Dave.

See get lines crossed, be on the right lines, read between the lines

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Here, along the lines of multitudinous houses, up one street and down another, he wondered which of them might be occupied by her. Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context The gardener seemed even to have been conversing, but at sight of the detectives he planted his spade sullenly in a bed and, saying something about his breakfast, shifted along the lines of cabbages and shut himself in the kitchen. The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context More results

? References in classic literature

Here, along the lines of multitudinous houses, up one street and down another, he wondered which of them might be occupied by her.

Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context

Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered.

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

The gardener seemed even to have been conversing, but at sight of the detectives he planted his spade sullenly in a bed and, saying something about his breakfast, shifted along the lines of cabbages and shut himself in the kitchen.

The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context

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