некоторым образом; если можно так выразиться(=фигурально выражаясь • The sun is, as it were, the lamp of the universe.4uzhoj); если угодно(4uzhoj); фигурально выражаясь(The sun is, as it were, the lamp of the universe.4uzhoj); что ли(в знач. "если можно так выразиться") I'm almost programmed, as it were, to just kind of be perfect. Баян); так сказать(в знач. "если можно так выразиться" • The street plan evolved, as it were, by natural selection. • And if we feel, as it were, that there is an eye looking down upon us, it would be well for us to lift up our eyes at times.); как будто; словно; как бы то ни было; как бы; если бы
само по себе(A man and his girlfriend were reportedly driving along a rural road when they saw some movement near the side of the road. They originally thought the figure was a naked man crawling along on the ground, which was already odd enough as it is, but as they approached they realized that it was even much stranger than this. (mysteriousuniverse.org) -- что уже само по себе было странноART Vancouver)
wiktionary.org); used to draw attention to the use of a metaphor, sometimes to prevent confusion or to highlight wordplay (She gave all of the women seated at the restaurant food for thought, as it were. 