EDUCATION

to speak figuratively

"Catching" up, so to speak. google

March came in like a lamb, so to speak, but we hope that the end of
the month will not follow tradition!.  gogle

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."
  --  C.S. Lewis