English-French translations for as it were

pour ainsi direNous avons réellement rampé ensemble sur ce coup-là, pour ainsi dire. We really crept together on this one, as it were. Il existe également de meilleurs signaux, des feux verts pour ainsi dire. There are other, better signals too, a green light as it were. Une fois que l'enfant a le jouet entre les mains, c'est pour ainsi dire trop tard. Once they have the toy in their hands, it is, as it were, too late.

She gave all of the women seated at the restaurant food for thought, as it were
Concerns that cloud seeding might “steal” water from an area a cloud is traveling toward—robbing Peter to water Paul, as it were—have been dispelled

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