"so to speak" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|adverb}} so to speak
  1. In a manner of speaking. Synonyms: as it were, in a manner of speaking, if you will, so to say Translations (in a manner of speaking): as't ware (Afrikaans), إن جازَ التَعْبِير (ʔin jāza t-taʕbīr) (Arabic), per dir-ho així (Catalan), jakoby (Czech), takříkajíc (Czech), så at sige (Danish), als het ware (Dutch), por tiel diri (Esperanto), kvazaŭ (Esperanto), niin sanotusti (Finnish), pour ainsi dire (French), d’une certaine façon (French), en quelque sorte (French), en un sens (French), façon de parler (French), ასე თუ ისე (ase tu ise) (Georgian), sozusagen (German), um es so zu sagen (German), gewissermaßen (German), in gewisser Weise (German), כִּבְיָכוֹל (kivyakhól) (Hebrew), úgyszólván (Hungarian), úgymond (Hungarian), mondhatni (Hungarian), hogy úgy mondjam (Hungarian), quaze (Ido), in un certo senso (Italian), per così dire (Italian), in qualche modo (Italian), in qualche maniera (Italian), 丸で (marude) (Japanese), まるで (marude) (Japanese), 言わば (iwaba) (alt: いわば) (Japanese), tamquam (Latin), така да се каже (taka da se kaže) (Macedonian), така да се рече (taka da se reče) (Macedonian), എന്നവാച്ചാൽ (ennavāccāl) (Malayalam), അങ്ങനെയെങ്കിൽ (aṅṅaneyeṅkil) (Malayalam), biex ngħidu hekk (Maltese), hema bêje (Northern Kurdish), hema hema (Northern Kurdish), så å si (Norwegian Bokmål), mer eller mindre (Norwegian Bokmål), så å seia (Norwegian Nynorsk), meir eller mindre (Norwegian Nynorsk), per ansin díser (Occitan), per aital díser (Occitan), jakby (Polish), w pewnym sensie (Polish), że tak powiem (Polish), por assim dizer (Portuguese), de certa forma (Portuguese), digamos assim (Portuguese), ca să zic așa (Romanian), так сказа́ть (tak skazátʹ) (Russian), такорѐћи [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), takorèći [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), por así decirlo (Spanish), por decirlo así (Spanish), digamos (Spanish), como quien dice (Spanish), para entendernos (Spanish), se entiende (Spanish), så att säga (Swedish), deyim yerindeyse (Turkish), tabiri caize (Turkish), так би мо́вити (tak by móvyty) (Ukrainian)

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        "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 42:",
          "text": "Then Tom girded up his loins, so to speak, and went to work to “get his verses.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898 September, Joseph Conrad, “Youth: a Narrative”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXIV, number DCCCCXCV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publication Co., page 309:",
          "text": "This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak—the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “A Cosmopolite in a Café”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC, page 27:",
          "text": "He took the great, round world in his hand, so to speak, familiarly, contemptuously, and it seemed no larger than the seed of a Maraschino cherry in a table d’hôte grape fruit.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Dr. Frederick Chilton (Anthony Heald):",
          "text": "I don't believe Lecter's even seen a woman in eight years. And oh, are you ever his taste. So to speak.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 May 5, James Barron, Colin Moynihan, “Obama Visits Firehouse in Midtown Manhattan”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-11-24:",
          "text": "For Firefighter Joseph Ceravolo, President Obama turned up the heat, so to speak, even before he sat down to an early lunch on Thursday.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In a manner of speaking."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "In a manner of speaking",
          "in a manner of speaking#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "as it were"
        },
        {
          "word": "in a manner of speaking"
        },
        {
          "word": "if you will"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "so to say"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "as't ware"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔin jāza t-taʕbīr",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "إن جازَ التَعْبِير"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "per dir-ho així"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "jakoby"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "takříkajíc"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "så at sige"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "als het ware"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "por tiel diri"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "kvazaŭ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "niin sanotusti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "pour ainsi dire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "d’une certaine façon"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "en quelque sorte"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "en un sens"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "façon de parler"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ase tu ise",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "ასე თუ ისე"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "sozusagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "um es so zu sagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "gewissermaßen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "in gewisser Weise"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "kivyakhól",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "כִּבְיָכוֹל"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "úgyszólván"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "úgymond"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "mondhatni"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "hogy úgy mondjam"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "quaze"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "in un certo senso"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "per così dire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "in qualche modo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "in qualche maniera"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "marude",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "丸で"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "marude",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "まるで"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いわば",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "iwaba",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "言わば"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "hema bêje"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "hema hema"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "tamquam"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "taka da se kaže",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "така да се каже"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "taka da se reče",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "така да се рече"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "ennavāccāl",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "എന്നവാച്ചാൽ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "aṅṅaneyeṅkil",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "അങ്ങനെയെങ്കിൽ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "biex ngħidu hekk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "så å si"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "mer eller mindre"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "så å seia"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "meir eller mindre"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "per ansin díser"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "per aital díser"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "jakby"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "w pewnym sensie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "że tak powiem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "por assim dizer"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "de certa forma"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "digamos assim"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "ca să zic așa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tak skazátʹ",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "так сказа́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "такорѐћи"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "takorèći"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "por así decirlo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "por decirlo así"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "digamos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "como quien dice"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "para entendernos"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "se entiende"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "så att säga"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "deyim yerindeyse"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "tabiri caize"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tak by móvyty",
      "sense": "in a manner of speaking",
      "word": "так би мо́вити"
    }
  ],
  "word": "so to speak"
}

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