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thumbnail sketch
Idioms and Phrases
A brief outline or cursory description, as in Let me give you a thumbnail sketch of the situation . This idiom alludes to drawing a picture no larger than a thumbnail. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Any thumbnail sketch of the 38-year-old is bound to start with the fact that he was for more than five years the partner of Mr Attal.
"It is very easy to draw a very bold thumbnail sketch of Margaret and you can make her a cliché," the Oscar-nominated actress says.
But, given the museum’s three small rooms, it’s a thumbnail sketch of a thumbnail sketch.
Something of a thumbnail sketch, it has no catalog.
Billed as a retrospective, it’s more like a thumbnail sketch for one, given the modest size.
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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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