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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.
  • 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.

  • 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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