after a fashion

1. 1.

   to some extent; not very well

   “he speaks French after a fashion”

Questions about after a fashion

What does after a fashion mean?

after a fashion means "to some extent; not very well".

Is after a fashion a common word?

after a fashion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.