something of a

1. To some extent, as in Our professor is something of an eccentric. [Early 1700s]

Example Sentences

It's acutely and specifically painful for Labour because Rayner had personally styled herself as something of a sleaze-buster.

From BBC

As Katharine Kent, or Mrs Kent, she lived something of a double life, working from the mid-1990s as a part-time music teacher at Wansbeck Primary School in Kingston upon Hull, without parents or pupils knowing about her royal background.

From BBC

But the Truth Teller starts with almost nothing — that it comes out at all, apparently daily, is something of a joke in itself; at least Ted Baxter was the only knucklehead working at WJM on “Mary Tyler Moore,” but there are more than a few of them here.

From Los Angeles Times

That statement is in a week of economist transfers where the Treasury has become something of a feeder club to Number 10.

From BBC

It was something of “a roller coaster,” said Karty, who aims to pick up where he left off last season.

From Los Angeles Times