so to speak

so to speakの主な意味と例文

意味	いわば例えて言うと言うなれば used to indicate that one is describing something in a non-literal or figurative way
例文	He's like a fish out of water, so to speak. 彼は言ってみれば水を失った魚のようだ。 She is a real dynamo, so to speak. 彼女は言ってみれば本物の発電機だ。

意味	as if it were really so まるで本当にそうであるかのように
同義語	as it were
例文	she lives here, as it were 彼女はいわばここに住んでいるようなものだ

意味	in a manner of speaking 言ってみれば
同義語	as we say
例文	the feeling is, as we say, quite dead その感情は、いわば完全に消え去っている