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View synonyms for so to speak

so to speak



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Idioms and Phrases

Phrased like this, in a manner of speaking, as in He was, so to speak, the head of the family, although he was only related by marriage to most of the family members . This term originally meant “in the vernacular” or “lower-class language” and was used as an aristocrat's apology for stooping to such use. [Early 1800s] Also see as it were .
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Example Sentences

For the purpose he would make a few remarks as a basis of his "so-to-speak destructive construction of this social heterogeneity."

So I did not, so-to-speak, associate with any Russians that might have come or gone through Dallas from 1939 to about 1950.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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