Definitions for so to speak
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Princeton's WordNet
as it were, so to speak(adverb)
as if it were really so
"she lives here, as it were"
as we say, so to speak(adverb)
in a manner of speaking
"the feeling is, as we say, quite dead"
Wiktionary
so to speak(Adverb)
In a manner of speaking.
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