or should I say

English

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or I should say

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Phrase

or should I say?

  1. (colloquial, humorous) Said by someone after a statement, meaning to precede a pun or another kind of clever rephrasing
    • 1898, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 8, in Penelope’s Progress […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
      As the presence of any considerable number of priests on an ocean steamer is supposed to bring rough weather, so the addition of a few hundred parsons to the population of Edinburgh is believed to induce rain,—or perhaps I should say, more rain.
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