Using “so to speak”

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that

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the mobile phone is your best friend of

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course that's not literal

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but maybe it sounds a bit silly in the

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in the situation but just adding

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so to speak it makes it clear it's just

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a silly example

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okay the second example i have for you

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today is so much waste

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ends up in the oceans they've become the

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world's rubbish bin

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if you will okay so you're using a bit

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of a

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metaphor there you're calling the oceans

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of the planet

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a rubbish bin which yeah it's not a bad

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metaphor but you just want to emphasize

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that it's

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not literal it's just a figurative

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expression so if you will

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makes it clear to the to the examiner in

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this case

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okay one more example cars will be

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obsolete within the next 20 years

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they're on their last legs as it were

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okay so cars will be obsolete in the

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next 20 years

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that could