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à la mode

1. Served with ice cream. My favorite dessert is apple pie à la mode.

2. Very fashionable. Big shoulder pads were à la mode in the 1980s, but most people now would not dare to wear them.

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à la mode

fashionable Velvet trousers are à la mode this season.

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in one’s something mode

phr. behaving in a specified mode. (The something can be replaced by work, sleep, hungry, angry, etc.) Todd is always in his play mode when he should be working.

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