in so many words
in as many words

A. I did not ask him in so many words.

And he said that in so many words before the game.

Not in so many words but she knows when she's needed.

Your stuff is great, they told him, in so many words.

In so many words, the city officials seemed to be saying, these four had it coming.

But he could not quite bring himself to say that in so many words.

Then you have to understand something that's never said in so many words.

In so many words, he'd offered to work for nothing.

We tell the child, in so many words: You see?

Not in so many words, of course, but the message is clear.

She said it, not in so many words but they got the message.

Oh, not in so many words, but it eventually came out.

Not in so many words she might be able to explain, but understanding just the same.

And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?"

Not in so many words, but that's what he meant.

"Not in so many words, but by his actions he certainly did."

Today, Congress said it was all a mistake, if not in so many words.

In so many words, she said the new Tate was a model of what such things should be.

"Not in so many words, but that is sort of what I was asking."

"All right, not in so many words, but I think she would have gotten the idea."

Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words!

He'd admitted as much, if not in so many words.

Not in so many words, but getting the idea across your own way."

He asked again, got the same reply and was told in so many words to change the subject.

"Not in so many words, but he gave me the impression that you had something to do with it."

Our Lord in as many words tells us all that.

I will offer two guesses, in as many words - crime and age.

And now here, this very minute, her aunt was saying almost in as many words to him, Why don't you have a go?

It was as if someone had touched his brain and said so in as many words.

Thayer stood up, saying so in as many words.

Put in as many words as you like.

They say so in as many words.

And yet the presidency's representative said in as many words that the European Parliament had no position on this!

'Not in as many words, but you've said it in one way or another.

Three lies in as many words, no?

'Not in as many words,' said Frank, retreating a fraction.

Her attitude can be viewed as racism against demons, although it is never defined in as many words.

Maybe he told her so in as many words, he spoke 'angry-like,' you recall.

It helped that he regarded her scars as badges of honor and told her so in as many words.

In as many words."

'In as many words, yes, it was.

And in one place it as good as calls Him Ready-to-halt in as many words.

He indeed said that, in as many words, in a radical departure from his previous remarks about HIV.

The report of the Wise Men says in as many words that the Council has been conspicuous by its silence in this whole affair.

Beltaire's appearance was no accident; he had indeed arranged their meeting, for the Firemaster had told him so in as many words.

With that I offered in as many words to marry her, but before she could answer, down came this brother of hers, running at us with a face on him like a madman.

He had been told in as many words that since he was partly responsible for the situation - the mess, it was generally called - he could sort it out himself.

No one ever said so in as many words, but there were one or two coincidences too many in the way things came together when I put in my bid on her.

Had Parliament intended otherwise, the Constitution would say so in as many words, particularly, the court held, because the principles of representative democracy lay at the heart of the Constitution.

Farr-Jones isn't saying it in as many words, but he clearly feels that some of the doors opened by the World Cup triumph were not marched through quickly or expertly enough.