"как говорится" meaning in Russian

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    {
      "form": "как говори́тся",
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    {
      "form": "kak govorítsja",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "They simply did not know what to do with themselves, and having got into Litvinov's lodgings they 'stuck' there, as they say.",
          "ref": "1867, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “XI”, in Дым; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., Smoke, 1896:",
          "roman": "Oní prósto ne ználi, kudá détʹsja, i, popáv na kvartíru Litvínova, kak govorítsja, «zastrjáli» v nej.",
          "text": "Они́ про́сто не зна́ли, куда́ де́ться, и, попа́в на кварти́ру Литви́нова, как говори́тся, «застря́ли» в ней.",
          "type": "quote"
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      "glosses": [
        "as they say"
      ],
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[kaɡ ɡəvɐˈrʲit͡sːə]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "как говорится"
}

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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "They simply did not know what to do with themselves, and having got into Litvinov's lodgings they 'stuck' there, as they say.",
          "ref": "1867, Иван Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev], “XI”, in Дым; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., Smoke, 1896:",
          "roman": "Oní prósto ne ználi, kudá détʹsja, i, popáv na kvartíru Litvínova, kak govorítsja, «zastrjáli» v nej.",
          "text": "Они́ про́сто не зна́ли, куда́ де́ться, и, попа́в на кварти́ру Литви́нова, как говори́тся, «застря́ли» в ней.",
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        "as they say"
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      "ipa": "[kaɡ ɡəvɐˈrʲit͡sːə]"
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  "word": "как говорится"
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