英语词汇“so to say”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(e) so to say: used to indicate that something is being described in an unusual, metaphorical, or creative way; ‘as it were’. Cf. so to speak at speak v. 4a. [Compare Dutch zoo te zeggen (1582), German so zu sagen, sozusagen (16th cent. or earlier).]

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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > as it were

as it werec1175

quasi1485

so to say1619

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. xxi. 361 Things, so to say [L. ut sic dixerim], were planet-strucken with three bad influences.

1753 Ess. on Action for Pulpit 86 It will make every religious string, so to say, more intense and tinnient.

1770 W. Hooper tr. J. F. von Bielfeld Lett. III. vi. 53 He has a thousand virtues, a thousand good qualitys, with some small faults, which form, so to say, the shades of the picture.

1823 M. R. Mitford in Lady's Mag. Sept. 501/2 My flowers..withered and faded and pined away; they almost, so to say, panted for drought.

1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xxvi. 241 Having now, so to say, presented our humble duty to the Lord Mayor..let us retrace our steps.

1930 J. Laird Knowl., Belief & Opinion iv. 103 Perfectly convincing evidence might turn up, so to say, ambulando, when we are engaged in something irrelevant.

1993 Insight on News 27 Sept. 40/1 There seldom is anyone around with a political pooper-scooper, so to say.

单词	so to say
释义	> as lemmas so to say (e) so to say: used to indicate that something is being described in an unusual, metaphorical, or creative way; ‘as it were’. Cf. so to speak at speak v. 4a. [Compare Dutch zoo te zeggen (1582), German so zu sagen, sozusagen (16th cent. or earlier).] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > as it were as it werec1175 quasi1485 so to say1619 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. xxi. 361 Things, so to say [L. ut sic dixerim], were planet-strucken with three bad influences. 1753 Ess. on Action for Pulpit 86 It will make every religious string, so to say, more intense and tinnient. 1770 W. Hooper tr. J. F. von Bielfeld Lett. III. vi. 53 He has a thousand virtues, a thousand good qualitys, with some small faults, which form, so to say, the shades of the picture. 1823 M. R. Mitford in Lady's Mag. Sept. 501/2 My flowers..withered and faded and pined away; they almost, so to say, panted for drought. 1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xxvi. 241 Having now, so to say, presented our humble duty to the Lord Mayor..let us retrace our steps. 1930 J. Laird Knowl., Belief & Opinion iv. 103 Perfectly convincing evidence might turn up, so to say, ambulando, when we are engaged in something irrelevant. 1993 Insight on News 27 Sept. 40/1 There seldom is anyone around with a political pooper-scooper, so to say. extracted from sayv.¹int. < as lemmas
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