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so to speak
as one might say; said a certain way, even though the words are not exactly accurate. John helps me with my taxes. He's my accountant, so to speak. I just love my little poodle. she's my baby, so to speak. See also: speak so to speak this is one way to say it in a manner of speaking My grandfather is 74, and he plays golf every day – it's a sport you can play even as you head into the sunset, so to speak. Even if New Yorkers obeyed all the rules, New York would still be, so to speak, an unruly city. Related vocabulary: if you willUsage notes: used to suggest that some people may not think this is a good way to say something See also: speak Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And the short life of a pope is also a cause of weakness; for in the ten years, which is the average life of a pope, he can with difficulty lower one of the factions; and if, so to speak, one people should almost destroy the Colonnesi, another would arise hostile to the Orsini, who would support their opponents, and yet would not have time to ruin the Orsini. Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes: A thing, as the Bellman remarked, That frequently happens in tropical climes, When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked. Perhaps it would be as well to start out with a broad and rapid sketch of Nietzsche as a writer on Morals, Evolution, and Sociology, so that the reader may be prepared to pick out for himself, so to speak, all passages in this work bearing in any way upon Nietzsche's views in those three important branches of knowledge. |
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So Not Ok! So Not True So Nyuh Shi Dae So Others Might Eat So Out of Luck So Over Him/Her so quiet you could hear a pin drop So Sick with It So So Def so soon So Sorry So Sorry in Advance so still you could hear a pin drop So Sue Me Already So Sweet So Sweet the Hour so that so that so that So That's It? So the Freak What so the saying goes so the saying goes so the saying goes so the saying is so the saying is so the saying is so to say so to say so to say so to speak So To Speak EPSo Tonight That I Might See So Totally Hot So Tunbridge Wells so what so what so what So What do You Want to Talk About? So What Else Is New? So What Who Cares So What's Up So What's Your Point So What's Your Problem So What? So Wrong, It's Right So You Know So You Mad So You Think It's Cute So You Think You Can Dance So You Thought So You Wanna .... So You Wanna Read About SO&P so's your old man So(3) SO(C) | |||||
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