figuratively speaking

基本解释

Our family traveled all over the Mid-Atlantic United States and figuratively speaking - all over the world - in search of "good soccer" for our son.
我们一家的足迹跨遍了美国的大西洋中部地区，并且在某种意思上是在世界范围内，为我们的孩子寻找“好的足球”。
Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.
这些事，我是用比喻对你们说的；时候将到，我不再用比喻对你们说，乃要将父明明地告诉你们。
The music, an important factor of the augmented product level, accompanies all this as, figuratively speaking, acoustic furniture.
音乐是附加产品的很重要的因素。打个比方来说，就像是声音家具。

That seemed unlikely as a matter of legal title but, figuratively speaking, probably true.
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