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so to say

so to say is the alternative form of so to speak.

Meaning of so to speak

Adverb

so to speak

  1. In a manner of speaking.
    • Then Tom girded up his loins, so to speak, and went to work to “get his verses.”1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 42

Questions about so to say

What is so to say the alternative form of?
So to say is the alternative form of so to speak.

Words near so to say in the dictionary

  1. so that
  2. so there
  3. so they had said
  4. so they said
  5. so they say
  6. so to say
  7. so to speak
  8. so true, bestie
  9. so way
  10. so what
  11. so's

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