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The set is made up solely of movable sea-blue coloured flats, so to speak the empty hull of a baroque stage apparatus.
He urged bluenoses to take ladies of the street into their homes until they got back on their feet, so to speak.
Lo and behold, some multimillion dollar settlement, so to speak, transpired and all of a sudden, the victim was unwilling to testify.
But they know, in their bones so to speak, that there are no more Saladin-like saviors out there.
It could work in the same way that comic books bridge universes, so to speak.
Well, we'll be returning to the experiment to be in at the death, so to speak!
I think women and men both are interested today in the main things that are important to keep body and soul together, so to speak.
But in the end we all ended up in the same boat so to speak, achieving but still trying.
But it is only now that they are able to enjoy the fruits of their labour, so to speak.
He wasn't at the forefront of the mayhem but everybody knew he had a hand in it, so to speak.
The rabbit is out of the hat, so to speak, and no government, never mind a mere bookmaking company, can put it back in.
I'll catch you up later in terms of what I did on my spring vacay, so to speak.
All but the rarest genetic changes will be drowned in the gene pool, so to speak.
At first, the pair try to head off their enemy at the pass, so to speak, by nobbling his ham-fisted henchmen.
A swift headbutt and a hard slam into my own solar plexus left me gasping for breath and I closed in for the kill so to speak.
By the time I got a ringside seat, so to speak, I watched as she applied a chokehold on his neck and hear her tell him to open his hand.
To be honest the school itself intimidated her, with its stainless reputation, wealthy attendants, and so to speak beautiful people.
Of course at the time we had the ballot box and armalite strategy, the halfway house so to speak, but that too was a transitional phase.
I've just looked at the pictures of the fish, and it looks even less prepossessing than it did in the flesh, so to speak.
The canonic male point of view is put in question by being reproduced, and so to speak re-framed, within a female artist's discourse.
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We had a bit of a heart to heart, so to speak, with the players on Tuesday night at training.
Secretly, he'd toy with the idea of outplaying his brother, wiping the court with him, so to speak.
I never have had that yen, to be a behind-the-scenes guy, a manipulator of players and the builder of a franchise so to speak.
Well in 1986 we lost our resident parish priest and so we had to start from there to paddle our own canoe so to speak.
One would seek to undercut or outmaneuver countervailing coalitions, a latter-day British grand strategy, so to speak.
He has taken to singing a song of his own composition at the end of his speeches, in order to gee up the troops, so to speak.
The rest that follows after those opening words is really epexegetical, so to speak, of the obligation to conduct at sole risk.
Meanwhile, at the Erinsborough Clinic, the young hairless harpy, found herself on the horns of a dilemma, so to speak.
They have the same ethereal qualities so to speak, as angels, and they're also messengers because an angel is also a messenger.
Three anorgasmic women were implanted with the device and asked to play with it, so to speak.
If you have your own set of burning questions, you will have to do your own legwork, so to speak.
The rest remain out of the loop, so to speak, and in all likelihood will continue to do so.
She felt like she was acclimatizing, so to speak, to the life of a rock star.
It's by Patrice Leconte, and it is a rippingly funny, smart movie about the court of Louis XIV, where wit was the coin of the realm, so to speak.
Americans also have a strong technological bias, and are a people of tools and gadgets, so to speak.
His ambition for approbation sets bounds and limits to his ambition, so to speak.
This much of the theory's content can be specified, so to speak, a priori, before taking physical contingencies into account.
Then a struggle ensued between the Curial bureaucracy and the non-bureaucrats, so to speak, on the revision of the documents.
My pal's front room was packed, the audience egging me on so to speak, as I downed the first few in quick succession.
To stem the tide, so to speak, the Pebble Beach Company has undertaken major projects at major expense.
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While men win the role of observers and evaluators, so to speak, women are the objects of such observations and evaluations.
He focused, so to speak, on the pragmatics of the signifier rather than on the vicissitudes of the signified.
I'd advice you take everything I write with a pinch of salt anyway, so to speak.
So as a singer, I really, really, you know, got my jollies, so to speak, getting to sing these great songs.
If public workers are willing to take one for the team, so to speak, they'll garner considerably more goodwill.
There, we found all trains were terminating at Skipton and having burned our boats behind us so to speak we took a chance.
It's hard to believe she could drink more than a sherry glass of cider without unleashing a technicolor yawn into the gutter, so to speak.
The farmer is making a few last turns with his cultivator, sweeping up, so to speak, the last bit of straw left at the corners of the field.
Their Cuban identity may be a put-on, so to speak, but the Postizo crew have got the beat in their blood.
After a lot of thought I have finally decided to hang up the pen so to speak.
Folks are beginning to figure out how they can beat the system, so to speak, because there are all sorts of travel restrictions.
It is a kind of corn cake, Molly told me, the parent, so to speak, of the corn dodger, and the grandparent of hoecake.
That means if someone starts to campaign on their behalf, so to speak, and breaks the rules, they can be held liable.
By the fourth I was utterly alone and totally in the dark about where I was, so to speak.
Did your co-stars respect your director position or did you have to crack the whip, so to speak?
And amidst the bamboo pennants, a shikra jinked and swerved, cutting a dash so to speak.
But they're definitely not the real thing, not the full shilling, so to speak.
Now, he was not the full shilling so to speak and he ended up being cared for from the Parish funds.
However, to date, the provincial government is dragging its travois, so to speak.
In effect, the court constitutionalised, so to speak, an absolute limitation.
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Besides, although I'm not a father I am a lawyer and I can assure you that you can take his submission as gospel truth, so to speak.
Its life is about short-term conflicts, blazing rows in the pub, so to speak, mysterious plots and unfathomable motivations.
I reckon you need to wipe the slate, mate, make a clean breast of it, so to speak.
You probably don't have much time to relax these days, but in those moments or hours in which you do, how do you spend your down time, how do you unwind so to speak?
There is a banding together so to speak, which is becoming a real cultural phenomenon.
Certainly that was his formulation in the early years, that as the child's objectivity waxed, so to speak, so his imagination and fantasy life would be inclined to wane.
Again, what does it say about the human heart if you get your jollies, so to speak, by peering into somebody's interaction on a supposed desert island?
I suspect that was the straw that broke the camel's back and whipped them into migratory action, so to speak, because Leah and Jason arrived in Darwin not long afterwards.
The aforementioned authors have all created a new language, so to speak.
I considered whether to enter the fray, since my credentials were in order, so to speak.
We have rehabbed 1,600 schools since the war ended, so to speak.
Now you might say that's a very small step, but 100 years ago, denominations were very happy to anathematise each other at the drop of a hat, so to speak.
India was once considered the go-to spot for commercial surrogacy, but Thailand is the emerging market, so to speak.
When writing a first draft, by all means let the story rip, so to speak.
Rather, the title was a tribute to Bhardwaj's dedication, the way she basically overcame physical and financial difficulty to stay on the beam, so to speak.
I took off the sheath, the holster, so to speak, of the taser and I loaded the taser.
Modern legal concepts were 'baked in the cake,' so to speak.
It's one thing to put up a security fence, a barrier that is clearly on your property, the dividing line, so to speak, in order to protect yourself.
Which is why the enormous trans-atlantic cloud's path over London creates the perfect storm, so to speak.
There seems to be only so much power a sigil can summon, so to speak.
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Since they already owed everything to God before they sinned and incurred debt on top of that, they are in the hole of obligation to God, so to speak.
Let's also recognise that wherever we build in Basingstoke today, so to speak, tomorrow the planners will be looking elsewhere within the borough.
Saturday morning came with a sense of apprehension and excitement with the thought that I was so near and yet so far from reaching Mecca, so to speak.
In the phony world of celebrity, very few are as honest about having had a little work, a little nip and tuck, so to speak, as you have always been.
As Orman sees it, prepaid debit cards and credit cards are two sides of the same coin, so to speak.
Is it time to obfuscate obscurantism, so to speak, even to oneself?
The sun of the Roman Empire set, so to speak, in the East, and it is to Byzantium we must turn our eyes for the continuation of the art of horsemanship as of the Fine Arts.
It's a conceptual tool for trying to evaluate enormously complex situations in the midst of a gospel that is, so to speak, biased toward blessing peacemakers.
Now that he has put on Christ, he personates Him, so to speak, as a beggar in borrowed robes represents a king on the stage, walking as he also walked.
This keeps doctors in the pink, so to speak, and gives the sisters opportunity to discuss at length which medicos hands are colder than the others.
They might prefer to buy them frozen, defrost them at home and eat them freshly defrosted, so to speak, not after they have been sitting in a pool of water for several days.
The next morning found me at the wheel, so to speak, of my dog sled.
Jack was a truck driver. He loved over-the-road trips. Think he had a girl in every port, so to speak.
In today's market, agents need the ability to quickly react to opportunities, and to strike while the iron is hot, so to speak.
Thankfully, I am not a centrefold in the magazine but I am spread across two pages, so to speak.
It became clear the cap was way to small for many of our big bonces, so we've knocked it on the head, so to speak.
But one man's loss is another's gain, so to speak, and the beneficiary is set to be Exeter Chiefs scrummager Tomas Francis.
It took you quite a while to climb the Hollywood mountain, so to speak.
It has all been foretold, forelived, Tridib being, so to speak, the novel's ur-imagination, ur-hero, ur-narrator.
I just wasn't cut out to be a whitewash salesman, so to speak.
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In place of the monologue is a heteroglot, so to speak, of a multitude of voices, sociolects, dialects, registers and styles.
Thirty years ago, it was unheard of not to earn your stripes, so to speak.
This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak.
So we had a facemail meeting and took him out to the woodshed, so to speak.
He was a man who followed whims, which meant he would blow up in one direction, so to speak.
Then Tom girded up his loins, so to speak, and went to work.
Do you mind if I talk? It helps me keep the wolf from the door, so to speak. Jill, what do you think of the pedestrianization of Norwich city centre?
I need to find out how to push their hot button, so to speak.
Examples from Classical Literature
Entertainments were plentiful in Moctezuma's city, though subsisting, so to speak, upon diminished rations.
So he has his American supper in the next room overlooking Attica, so to speak.
It is, so to speak, those variations of a great plan which give such a charm to the study of comparative anatomy.
What will be our fate in the frenzy, so to speak, that shall befall the world in its dotage?
Some patients show none or but few of the signs, while others run the gamut, so to speak, in the semeiology of dyspepsia.
This fourfold edenic stream went out in four directions, to the four quarters of the earth, so to speak.
He won't be pleased if I come out with you as if from your dressing-room, en famille, so to speak.
Genius explains all sublime achievements and genius is, so to speak, its own fons et origo.
It has a peculiar effect on gummatous tissue, causing it to melt away, so to speak, and greatly hastening the healing process.
His suffering limbs were, so to speak, shrieking for mercy but he would not give it to them.
Michael nodded, saluting, so to speak, the signpost into the future as he passed it.
The streak of something slovenly crept into the nobility, smudging it, so to speak, with a blur.
It's excessively awkward to mention it now,With the snark, so to speak, at the door!
The young fellows are indentured by the head office and sent to school, so to speak.
It is another case of the inorganic, so to speak, passing into the organic.
Have you remembered that I've brought her up, so to speak, since she was knee-high to me?
Would it be normal for one to graduate, so to speak, from the Komsomol to the membership in the Communist Party?
They are, so to speak, pimples of the soul which synchronise with similar excrescences of the skin.
We have therefore, so to speak, a living fossil before us, and it would be of great interest to ascertain its history.
Where Alec was concerned, the bomb ought to remain a trade secret, so to speak.
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It censured Mrs. McKee severely for having been, so to speak, and accessory after the fact.
His venture as a moonshiner at all events was, so to speak, a side line of employ.
Their moral compass, so to speak, is less exposed to magnetic aberrations and is more likely to point true.
The potentialities, so to speak, of the printed poem, must be vocally realized.
The whole thing was full of vraisemblance, so to speak, and bore me completely off my feet.
All this warranted my boy in being proud of his name, and, so to speak, living up to it.
Many a time I had to clear off the land, so to speak, against an onshore gale with my barge and family.
And that young man ended by welcoming your name, so to speak, with both hands.
This is ostracism, and ostracism, so to speak, is a physiological organ of democracy.
That was, so to speak, a conjuring-trick of a laying-box, which let the egg fall through a trap-door into a padded cell beneath.
But it was her pasturing, so to speak, in Lancashire, which brought it up to fruition.
In pis you can make your foundations, so to speak, as you go, through the simple process of ramming.
Now I am wiser, and know that life is not all bones and playtime, so to speak.
And now there it was, loaded and primed, so to speak, and she was responsible.
An ant or a bee only loves, so to speak, the whole assemblage of his companions.
This interview was, so to speak, a finishing touch to the unhappy chevalier.
The antirrhinum is, so to speak, a closed box, of which the Humble Bees alone possess the key.
All three assuaging their thirst in the lake, so to speak, made it at last turn into a pool.
We are, so to speak, an astronomical unit, and we affect each other for better or for worse.
In short, is the horse to be thus dismissed into obliquity, so to speak?
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But all these seemed only his casual stopping-places and ocean-inns, so to speak, not his places of prolonged abode.
Well, o' course Ann couldn't own it, an' him right there, so to speak.
Ruddy, the slipslop explorer, had gone in heels over head, so to speak.
Just give me a hint, to keep me from 'bursting,' so to speak!
The Trinity had, so to speak, come between me and the Godhead.
A moleskin vest constitutes a graduation in woodcraft so to speak.
A tarradiddle is what you say when you are, so to speak, took by surprise.
A woman who kills herself is, so to speak, not an adulteress.
In this new Aquarian Age it will be at our fingers' ends, so to speak.
Such adaptations are, so to speak, grafted on the archetype.
The Union Jack, so to speak, won't be worth the paper it's written on, Tom.
Some are much more striking personally and imitable, so to speak.
Marija felt, so to speak, that she had her hand on the throttle, and the neighborhood was vocal with her rejoicings.
But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight.
No coloratura soprano can, so to speak, afford to be without it.
It was, so to speak, rediscovered by messrs Busk and Falconer.
But it is a conventionality of fact so to speak, and not of right.
Thus it is his regimental flag, so to speak, and bears the record of his achievements.
For sech alien hookups, so to speak, we reefooses all reespons'bility.
Smith used it continually, underlining his remarks with it, so to speak.
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Is not this second infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first?
By the side of this ecclesiastic, his Wolsley is, so to speak, nowhere.
Yet once on the trail, so to speak, he is probity personified.
All the family jewels, so to speak, hung about her pretty figure.
Going by the book, so to speak, baby-faced Hallur Hansson of Faroe Islands is the most prolific fouler.
For it came not in embryo, not in the egg, so to speak, but full-fledged.
Well, when ye haul in the gangplank, so to speak, I'll be aboard!
He garbled his sentences so to speak with excessive and useless wording.
The pint is to get the pop'lar eye fixed, so to speak, on Devil's Ford.
Another would be jocular in tone, slapping you on the back, so to speak.
It is true, there were some soft and merciful passages occasionally, but the tramp-tramp of the tourists only allowed one to get fitful glimpses of them, so to speak.
You, sir, of all men whom I have known, are he whose body is the closest conjoined, and imbued, and identified, so to speak, with the spirit whereof it is the instrument.
