in so many words

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In those precise words; also, plainly, directly. For example, He didn't tell me in so many words, but I understood that he planned to apply , or, as Charles Dickens put it in Sketches by “Boz” (1836): “That the Lord Mayor had threatened in so many words to pull down the London Bridge.” [Late 1600s]

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April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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insolvent in some measure

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