Meaning of or should I say | Babel Free

Definitions

Said by someone after a statement, meaning to precede a pun or another kind of clever rephrasing

colloquial, humorous

Examples

“As the presence of any considerable number of priests on an ocean steamer is supposed to bring rough weather, so the addition of a few hundred parsons to the population of Edinburgh is believed to induce rain,—or perhaps I should say, more rain.”

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