so to say

Adverb

Meaning

so to say

Alternative form of so to speak

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

so to speak sort of as it were

Examples

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid. Dennis Rodman

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement. Carol Leifer

By the end, Ruffini stated that so much of the refinement of the work had been done by Donizetti that he felt that "my freedom of action having been paralyzed by the maestro, I don't, so to say, recognize it as mine". Source: Internet

After it was recommended to me, I learned that Christopher Nolan has cited as an influence on his 2010 feature film, …so to say it was a bit ahead of its time is probably an understatement. Source: Internet

It is here that IK Shukla comes charging in, astride a white steed, wielding a mighty ex-calibre, so to say. Source: Internet

The same text (25.10.11-16) records that the Sarasvati is 'so to say meandering' (kubjimati) as it could not sustain heaven which it had propped up.sfnSee Witzel (1984)sfn for discussion; for maps (1984) of the area, p. 42 sqq. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

so the story goes so there so they say so to speak so what