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so to speak; so to call it; as it were  (often written with kana only)
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rocky area; rockface; rock wall
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わたし
ちち
いわば
がくしゃ
学者
ばか
My father is, so to speak, a learned fool.
はつめい
発明
いわば
ひつよう
必要
から
まれる

Inventions are born, so to speak, of necessity.
それいわば
せいし
生死
もんだい
問題

It is, as it were, a life and death problem.
かれ
いわば
にほん
日本
エジソン
He is a Japanese Edison, as it were.
かのじょ
彼女
いわば
ある
スピーカー
She is, as it were, a walking speaker.
 
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