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View synonyms for thumbnail sketch

thumbnail sketch



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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]
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Example Sentences

Well, give me in a thumbnail sketch, something about Mr. Jitkoff's background.

Cummings' life is scarcely even a sketch; at most it is a thumbnail sketch.

From the thumbnail sketch to the many variations of a conceptual scheme, one eliminating the other, many decisions are arrived at.

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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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