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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 |
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простите за каламбур (She gave all of the women seated at the restaurant food for thought, as it were. 4uzhoj) |
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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 странно ART Vancouver) |
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used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not exact though practically right: as if it were so (Synonyms: so to speak, in a manner of speaking, in a way
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