so to speak

ˌso to ˈspeakused to emphasize that you are expressing sth in an unusual or amusing way可以说；可谓They were all very similar. All cut from the same cloth, so to speak.他们都十分相像。可以说就跟一块布上剪下来似的。

• bustle in and out
• lofters
• normal fluid
• military aircraft
• AOB
• boat-billed
• have an eye to
• shrug
• vagotonic
• quinquinas
• French horns
• on the board
• get someone's dander up
• consolidation test
• apodemas
• exit strategies
• hamulus
• Floquet theorem
• zoophori
• halogens
• rom
• a gas / oil / water etc leak
• urban yoga
• rheumatic diseases
• experience effects
• prosomal
• monkey wrench
• Baldwin I
• field gun
• circa
• orthogon
• evictor
• kandies
• Clairaut's differential equation
• depressed classes
• golf
• bivariants
• possess one's soul in patience
• devotion
• much of a muchness
• right smart
• by slow degrees
• backbends
• lay flat
• contact paper
• Atty.Gen.
• Karl Fischer technique
• giselles
• balance theory
• charlatanically
• ASTMS
• on the way
• heat waves
• deludingly
• have (no) ambition for
• huger
• nadirs
• cough medicine
• fiacre
• methodologically
• sugar-bean
• experimentalists
• rebloom
• blitz
• All Souls' Day
• corrade
• at any minute
• the way to sb's heart
• gender-biased
• notionally
• elder hand
• on top gear
• sursum cordas
• woodward
• Styginae
• scouring rushes
• artenkreis
• astraddle
• summa
• filar micrometer
• multigravida
• Genetic Screenings
• anesthetically
• brevetted
• larvicide
• pewterers
• cancrinite
• Talmudist
• metropolitan magistrate
• cavaliers
• burn with
• stockpile-to-target sequence
• to say the sooth
• fight someone's quarrel
• Waldenström
• Minnesota, Fats
• bacterim
• entozoal
• tolerabilities
• shake hands with oneself