It's sort of rinky dink. vs It's sort a rinky dink.

The correct phrase is "it's sort of rinky dink." The phrase "sort of" is a common expression used to indicate a certain degree or manner, while "sort a" is not a standard construction in English.

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It's sort of rinky dink.

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to describe something as being of poor quality or not very impressive.

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Lois, you're pushing a bunch of rinky-dink tabloid garbage.
Looks like she and a couple of cowboys got some kind of rinky-dink off-book operation.
You think everything's rinky-dink. I don't like this, Jimmy.
Pretty rinky-dink operation for a guy like that.
Not rinky-dink nurses or your friends from the book club.
Dragged me into this rinky-dink firm, Murdock... and I'll never be able to thank you enough for it.
But I just do a little rinky-dink show on Army radio.
How would you like to do a weather report from a rinky-dink island in the middle of the ocean as a favor to my cousin?
We need to focus on what we can control, which is getting a famous band to play at our rinky-dink roadhouse.
And I'm willing to bet you've got bigger dreams than just dancing in some rinky-dink company before trading in your tutu for a white picket fence and a bunch of squalling kids.
I'm not going to tell you how impressed I am that you're a manager of some rinky-dink branch of a paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Some rinky-dink town upstate gets a big, fat cheque, while the inner city, where the money would keep people from committing crimes, gets zippity doo dah.
It's a good omen, Dink.
It's great seeing you, Dink.
It's OK, Dink. I'll make the run.
It's sort of us showing up.
I think it's some sort of defense mechanism.
It's a sort of Ukrainian...
It's funny - Actually it's sad - the only other person in my family I ever connected with is sort of trapped too.
It's not that sort of pain.

It's sort a rinky dink.

This phrase is not a standard construction in English.

Show examples from the web [+]

How would you like to do a weather report from a rinky-dink island in the middle of the ocean as a favor to my cousin?
You think everything's rinky-dink. I don't like this, Jimmy.
Pretty rinky-dink operation for a guy like that.
Not rinky-dink nurses or your friends from the book club.
Lois, you're pushing a bunch of rinky-dink tabloid garbage.
Dragged me into this rinky-dink firm, Murdock... and I'll never be able to thank you enough for it.
But I just do a little rinky-dink show on Army radio.
Looks like she and a couple of cowboys got some kind of rinky-dink off-book operation.
We need to focus on what we can control, which is getting a famous band to play at our rinky-dink roadhouse.
And I'm willing to bet you've got bigger dreams than just dancing in some rinky-dink company before trading in your tutu for a white picket fence and a bunch of squalling kids.
I'm not going to tell you how impressed I am that you're a manager of some rinky-dink branch of a paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Some rinky-dink town upstate gets a big, fat cheque, while the inner city, where the money would keep people from committing crimes, gets zippity doo dah.
It's a good omen, Dink.
It's great seeing you, Dink.
It's OK, Dink. I'll make the run.
Same... hating me and loving Pink or Rink or Dink.
Then again, it might be Flatnose Dink.
Then again, it might be Flatnose Dink.
He knows nothing about our formations, Dink.
I don't want to talk about anything named dink.

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It's sort of rinky dink. vs It's sort a rinky dink.