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of a piece
Idioms and Phrases
Also, all of a piece . Of the same kind, as in This legislation is of a piece with the previous bill , or Her rude behavior was all of a piece . The piece in this idiom alludes to a single mass of material. [Early 1600s]Example Sentences
The sophisticated shadings of McDonald’s singing are of a piece with the character’s slightly affected manner of speech.
A company catalog from 1923 described the tiles as “luminous and mellow in character, somewhat akin to the quality of a piece of old tapestry.â€
Bezos’ unilateral remaking of the Post’s opinion section this week—the section’s editor, David Shipley, resigned upon receiving the mandate, and he really had no other choice—is of a piece with all these other moves.
While the colors of a piece of clothing might be a trivial thing to disagree about, we can all learn a thing or two from the dress about how to navigate high-stakes disagreements.
But in the piriform cortex, a brain region associated with olfaction, they also found a neuron that increases firing in response to both the smell of licorice and the images of a piece of licorice candy and the written word licorice — and even to the smell of anise, which is similar in flavor and often used in licorice candy.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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