After the storm destroyed their house, they were, 'in a manner of speaking' [='so to speak, as it were'], lost at sea. [=they felt lost and confused after their house was destroyed]
He had never been on a boat before, but he walked along the deck as if 'to the manner born'.
A number of patients have complained about the doctor's impersonal 'bedside manner'.
(..) - - Forgive me, my lord, for I wasjust saying... a short... farewell. That is so sweet. You don't have to waste good manners on the ogre. It's not like it has feelings. No, you're right. It doesn't. Princess Fiona, beautiful, fair, (..)2001 Shrek