Explain, please!
Ex: We had a good time at the restaurant, so to speak, although the service was not very good.

"so to speak" what does it mean here?

Thanks! :))

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Explain, please!
Ex: We had a good time at the restaurant, so to speak, although the service was not  very good.

"so to speak" what does it  mean here?

Thanks! :))

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hi Shaimaa, as I know "so to speak" = "as it were"

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Better format:

Although the service was not very good at the restaurant we had a good time.

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Yes, "as it were" expresses pretty much the same idea but what does it mean?  The key is the word "so"!  One of the small common words with a lot of different meanings.  Here it means that you are continuing to speak of the experience as before (having a good time) although it's different now that you know what is happening.  The expression is almost an idiom if you take it without complete understanding of each meaning of "so".  The book "keys to words" is a picture dictionary of the small common words:  http://www.keys2words.info/

My Skype:  brian.madden4

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