Hi, Cherry gave you some good examples but this phrase is rarely used nowadays.

Hello Nika, 'after a fashion' as an idiom means in some manner, but not very well, barely adequate. If you do something after a fashion, you do it but not very well, you almost do it but not completely. Examples: * " I can paint ,but after a fashion. I am certainly not so good as you." It means to some degree I can do it ,but not very well. It is relatively of a low order. * "What she said is true after a fashion, although some of her statements were wrong." Here what is said is almost true ,but not completely true. * " I mended it ,after a fashion." It is not completely mended or not without some flaws.

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