of the sort

of the sort

A: "Did you tell Mary that we were buying her a puppy for her birthday?" B: "I said nothing of the sort! I just asked her if it was something she might like." A: "I just heard there's going to be a round of layoffs across the entire company!" B: "Hmm, I've been expecting something of the sort for a while now." A: "Did you tell Mary that we were buying her a puppy for her birthday?" B: "I said nothing of the sort! I just asked her if it was something she might like."
See also: of, sort
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

something of the sort

something of the kind just mentioned. The tree isn't exactly a spruce tree, just something of the sort. Jane has a cold or something of the sort.
See also: of, sort
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • along those lines
  • chew off
  • along similar lines
  • make hamburger out of someone/something
  • happy birthday
  • wearing
  • a woman after (one's) own heart
  • that would be telling
  • endear
  • endear to
References in classic literature
She says `There is nobody staying with us,' meaning nobody of the sort you mean.
Orderl is the direction of the sort. Note that the choices are XLAscending or XLDescending-the first two characters in both are the letters x and l, not an x followed by the number 1.
Degrade is shown in Figure 5 as a function of the sort initial MC.
The normalized MC-basis steps valid for all of the sorts were determined from the average MC of unsorted lumber measured at the end of each time-based step.
Results of the study showed the students had significant increase in their reading grade level, fluency, vocabulary, reading accuracy, comprehension, and reading speed as a result of the Sort Stories curriculum.
He regards moralizing as a kind of mandating, speaks of "the effect of coercion in the politics of shame," and refers to the "deep coerciveness" of the sort of thinking that privileges marriage.
All four sets of the SORT were administered with both immediate and delayed (half hour) recall.
Click the Options button in the lower left corner of the Sort dialog.
Since x = 0, the maximum value will always be moved up at each clock cycle [23] enabling real-time transmission of the sorted items (through the M-bit output) in ascending order.
But in order to obtain sufficient and constant quality of the sorted paper fractions, it is essential to organize the sorting processes more efficiently, automate them as far as possible and provide them with suitable quality checks.
So too, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, A Touch of Evil, and Amadeus paint frightening pictures of the sorts of people we are capable of becoming when our demons gain control.
Convection explains the size and regularity of the sorted patterns, but it doesn't really address the question of how the larger stones are sorted from the fine soil.
"Generally, they might take a representative sample of the sorted material, looking at the high-value elements in order to calculate price."