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in character
Idioms and Phrases
Consistent with someone's general personality or behavior. For example, Her failure to answer the invitation was completely in character . This usage dates from the mid-1700s, as does the antonym, out of character , as in It was out of character for him to refuse the assignment .Example Sentences
“Football coaches tend to be Machiavellian in character, but Robinson was more like a country doctor healing the sick in exchange for fresh eggs.”
On the other hand, Mitchell, in character, says, “I would buy more chocolate to give to everyone!”
And that’s because the incidents in Mexico were slightly different in character, in that while in Austin Verstappen was ahead at the apex, in Mexico Norris was.
I am mostly interested in character transformation.
Gosling wears a brown trench coat in character as a futuristic bounty hunter while approaching a city skyline shrouded in thick, orange smog.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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