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Shades of someone/something. something that you say when someone or something makes you think of another person or thing. We visited the university campus and had a few drinks in the bar. Shades of my student days. See also: shade shades of someone/something this suggests memories of another person or thing. The president's behavior suggests he has something to hide — shades of the Watergate scandal. Etymology: based on the meaning of shade (= spirit of a dead person) used esp. in literature See also: shade |
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The Distinguished Naturalist made no immediate reply, but later, as in the shades of night they journeyed through the desolate vastness of the Great Lone Land, he broke the silence: Now, were these shades of green, belonging to tropical vegetation, kept up by a low dense atmosphere? However, my business is with the week's washing, which in various shades of white, with occasional patches of scarlet, fluttered fantastically across a space of the garden, thereby giving unmistakable witness to human inhabitants, male and female. |
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