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Also, on the lines of . Roughly similar or in keeping with. For example, We told the architect we want a design along the lines of his own house but smaller , or Jane asked the caterer for a menu on the lines of the Morgans' wedding reception . This idiom uses line in the sense of “a direction or procedure,” a usage dating from the early 1600s.

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