Word · 単語
言わば
Reading いわば
so to speak
so to speak · so to call it · as it were · in a sense
N3
JLPT
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#2262
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
例文 · examples
私はいわば部外者だった。
I was an outsider, so to speak.
彼は、いわば、本の虫だ。
He is, so to speak, a bookworm.
彼は、いわば、生き字引だ。
He is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.
彼はいわばスタープレーヤーだ。
He is, so to speak, a star player.
その老人は言わば生き字引だ。
That old man is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.