Russian-English translations for так сказа́ть

• so to speak
• as it were
  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
• of sorts
  He wrote a polite retraction, as an apology of sorts for his harsh words
• so to say
• sort of
  It sort of makes sense the way he explains it, but I still dont really understand