or should I say
Definitions
Said by someone after a statement, meaning to precede a pun or another kind of clever rephrasing
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⟳.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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