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thumbnail sketch

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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Any thumbnail sketch of the 38-year-old is bound to start with the fact that he was for more than five years the partner of Mr Attal.

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"It is very easy to draw a very bold thumbnail sketch of Margaret and you can make her a cliché," the Oscar-nominated actress says.

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But, given the museum’s three small rooms, it’s a thumbnail sketch of a thumbnail sketch.

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Something of a thumbnail sketch, it has no catalog.

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Billed as a retrospective, it’s more like a thumbnail sketch for one, given the modest size.

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