so to speak; so to call it; as it were
彼は言わば天才と呼べる人だ。
He is, so to speak, a genius.
これは言わば新しい時代の始まりです。
This is, so to speak, the beginning of a new era.
言わば、私たちは一つの家族です。
We are, so to speak, one family.