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A reminder of a person or situation in the past. For example, He really played a fine game for a fifty-year-old—shades of his high school triumphs , or They found themselves alone on the beach—shades of their childhood summers together . [Mid-1800s]

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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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