do something as if it were going out of fashion Definition

fashion
noun

1. Style, especially the latest style, in clothes, music, lifetyle, etc, particularly that which prevails among those whose lead is accepted.
2. A currently popular style or practice; a trend.

Thesaurus: fad, craze, rage, vogue, trend, mode.
3. A manner of doing something.

Example: in a dramatic fashion
4. The way something is made or constructed.
5. Sort, type or kind.
6. dated
High society. Also as adj.
Example: fashion house
Example: fashion victim

verb fashioned, fashioning

1. To form or make something into a particular shape, especially with the hands.
2. To mould or influence something.

Thesaurus: make, create, design, shape, mould, manufacture, form, construct, tailor, forge, fit.

Derivative: fashioner
noun

Idiom: after a fashion

In a rather clumsy or inexpert way.

Idiom: do something as if it were going out of fashion

colloq
To do it with great vigour and enthusiasm as though for the last time.

Idiom: in fashion

Currently fashionable.

Idiom: out of fashion

No longer fashionable; passé.

Etymology: 14c: from French fachon, from Latin factio, from facere to make.