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    or should Isay?

    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, inPenelope’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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