If you can do something after a fashion, you can do it, but not well.

I can cook, after a fashion. 我会做饭，但做得不太好。

Paul played the piano and we all sang, after a fashion.

She followed in her aunt's footsteps, after a fashion, by becoming a journalist.

They have kept the publishing house running, after a fashion.

Despite growing up in poverty, he was educated after a fashion.

See also: fashion noun (MANNER)