English-Portuguese translations for as it were

  • digamos assimPassamos agora de um extremo da Europa, digamos assim, para o outro. We turn now from one end of Europe, as it were, to another. Um Ministro Europeu dos Negócios Estrangeiros com, digamos assim, estatuto de convidado no seio da Comissão, não será capaz de desempenhar aqui o papel que dele se espera. A Foreign Minister with, as it were, guest status within the Commission cannot play the required role here. Será, digamos assim, bom para o mercado de trabalho haver cada vez mais gente a entregar-se ao consumo de droga?Is it, as it were, good for the labour market that ever more people are giving themselves over to drug misuse?
  • por assim dizerA legislação é, por assim dizer, o nosso principal produto.Law is, as it were, our main product. Temos em si, por assim dizer, um verdadeiro inspector de serviço. You are as it were our resident lookout. Eles ainda estão, por assim dizer, a treinar. They are still in training, as it were.

Definition of as it were

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    • 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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