Can I use phrase "By saying **** you mean *****".
Is this correct phrase or should I go with "by saying *** it means that****".
This is just way of explanation of foreign sentence I want to do with the mentioned phrase.
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You can. It's not 100% idiomatic though, at least not in Britain: you've got a kind of mixture of two ways of saying it.
1. By *** you mean ***
"Yes, I do think we should go swimming in the frozen lake, and by 'we', I mean you."
2. When you say *** you mean ***
"When you say 'good people', you mean Chelsea supporters."
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Yes it is correct
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