So To Speak

Definition: So To Speak

So To Speak

Adverb

1. As if it were really so; "she lives here, as it were".

2. In a manner of speaking; "the feeling is, as we say, quite dead".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: So To Speak

Metaphor

Adverb: so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself; as it were.

Qualification

Approximately in a limited degree (smallness); somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak.

Similarity

Adverb: as if, so to speak; as it were, as if it were; quasi, just as, veluti in speculum.

Smallness

Partially, in part; in a certain degree, to a certain degree; to a certain extent; comparatively; some, rather in some degree, in some measure; something, somewhat; simply, only, purely, merely; at least, at the least, at most, at the most; ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree; thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak.

Crosswords: So To Speak

So, when was the last time you were on Fire, so to speak. (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

So to speak. (In the Bedroom; writing credit: Robert Festinger; Todd Field)

Tell me, when you saw Lecter's murders, their style, so to speak, were you able perhaps to reconstruct his fantasies? (Red Dragon; writing credit: Ted Tally)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• So to Speak 1: Integrating Speaking, Listening, and Pronunciation (reference)

• Sojourner, So to Speak (reference)

• The Way of the Wasp: How It Made America, and How It Can Save It, So to Speak (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• So to Speak [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer.

We must have a pasture within a pasture, so to speak.

At the instant when the moonbeam overlay, so to speak, this inward radiance, the sleeping bishop appeared as if in a halo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Arabic 

‏على حد تعبيرك. (various references)

Danish

så at sige. (various references)

Dutch

zogezegd, om zo te zeggen, bý wýze van spreken. (various references)

Esperanto

por tiel diri. (various references)

Finnish

niin sanoakseni (as it were). (various references)

French

pour ainsi dire (so to say). (various references)

German

sozusagen (as it were). (various references)

Hebrew 

כפי שאומרים, כביכול (alleged, as it were, as though, so called). (various references)

Hungarian

hogy úgy mondjam (as it were). (various references)

Italian

per cosÌ dire. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

言わば , 所謂 (the so-called), 丸で (as if, as though, at all, completely, entirely, quite). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まるで (as if, as though, at all, completely, entirely, quite), いわば (as it were, rocky area, so to call it), いわゆる (the so-called). (various references)

Pig Latin

osay otay eakspay

Romanian

cã sã zicem aşa (so to say). (various references)

Russian 

так сказать (as it were). (various references)

Spanish

por decirlo así (as it were). (various references)

Turkish

sanki (as if, as though, like, quasi, quasi-, so to say), tabiri caizse (as the phrase goes, in a manner of speaking, so to say), adeta (almost, fairly, in fact, nearly, so to say). (various references)

tamquam. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: petasos, sapotes.

-3 letters: estops, paseos, pastes, pestos, pookas, posset, ptoses, sapote, skates, spates, speaks, spokes, spooks, stakes, stapes, steaks, stokes, stooks, stoops, stopes.

-4 letters: apses, askos, asset, easts, estop, kotos, oases, oasts, paseo, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pates, peaks, peats, pesos, pesto, pests, poets, pokes, pooka, poses, posse, posts, psoae, psoas, sakes, sates.

+1 letter: swoopstake.