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if you will excuse my expression
gen. если угодно (if you wish it to be so called, if you will allow me to use this phrase • I admit I am visionary, a dreamer, if you will.So that critique doesn't challenge the prerogatives of military expansion or aggression, if you will, or empire.He wasn't a very honest person; a liar, if you will. Charikova); извините за выражение (=if you will excuse my expression • One day, in about the second grade, I needed to drain the pipes, if you will, and the door was ajar.Putting our balls out there means "we don't have to take crap, if you will, from China or North Korea or anybody." 4uzhoj); если позволите (= if you will allow me to use this phrase, if you will permit the analogy); если можно так выразиться (= so to speak / in a manner of speaking; used to indicate that what one has just said is an uncommon, metaphorical, or original way of saying something, or to signal hedging about vocabulary choice • She's very kind-minded, if you will.This arrangement will allow us to eliminate our debt and get back to solid ground, if you will.This is where I spend most of my time... my man cave, if you will 4uzhoj); с вашего позволения (=if you will excuse my expression); прошу прощения (в знач. "простите за выражение" • Putting our balls out there means "we don't have to take crap, if you will, from China or North Korea or anybody." 4uzhoj); если хотите (Vadim Rouminsky)
inf. если хотите (= if you like/wish • And you may call me John, if you will. snowleopard); так сказать (= so to speak; в т.ч. как фраза-паразит • These are "partial artifacts", if you will.And so it seems that the lapse, the failure to connect the dots, if you will, really is more egregious than we even knew about.I think it's a reason we've done well; part of our mystique, if you will.  4uzhoj); если хочешь (= if you like/wish • Well, marry him if you will.And you may call me John, if you will.); можно (=if you like • And you may call me John, if you will. – И да, можно просто "Джон". 4uzhoj); если позволите мне такое сравнение (контекстуальный перевод Ремедиос_П); как говорится (= as they say, as the saying goes; в т.ч. как фраза-паразит 4uzhoj); что называется (= as they say, as the saying goes; в т.ч. как фраза-паразит 4uzhoj)
polite переводится глаголом в предлагательном наклонении со словом "давайте" или без него ( =please/kindly; a polite way of asking people who are listening to you to think about something • Imagine, if you will, that you are in a new city. – Представьте, что вы оказались в незнакомом городе.Imagine, if you will, a typical silversmith's shop.But imagine, if you will, a world where these logistical problems were solved. – Давайте представим себе мир...Now, recall, if you will, the words of general Washington. – Вспомним слова генерала Вашингтона.)
if you will
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