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SO TO SPEAK

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

As if it were really so

Example:

she lives here, as it were

Synonyms:

as it were; so to speak

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a manner of speaking

Example:

the feeling is, as we say, quite dead

Synonyms:

as we say; so to speak

Classified under:

Adverbs

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 Context examples: 

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

So I take advantage of this short halt, while Gatsby, so to speak, caught his breath, to clear this set of misconceptions away.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)