manner of speaking
Noun
Meaning
your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
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his manner of speaking was quite abrupt
her speech was barren of southernisms
I detected a slight accent in his speech
Agathias expresses his hope that the Alemanni would assume better manners through prolonged contact with the Franks, which is by all appearances, in a manner of speaking, what eventually happened.
In a manner of speaking, to be made in the image and likeness of God is to have a microchip of divinity inside us.
Whose name, written in Aramaic, can be valued at 666, using the Hebrew numerology of gematria ), a manner of speaking against the emperor without the Roman authorities knowing.