Idiom
as I was saying
Meaning
Used to refer back to one's own previous statement in a discourse.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“As I was saying, we should leave early.”
“The phone rang during my story, but as I was saying, the movie was actually quite disappointing.”
“After the brief interruption by the committee members, the speaker cleared his throat and continued, as I was saying, the economic data suggests a significant shift in market trends.”
Examples
simple
“As I was saying, we should leave early.”
contextual
“The phone rang during my story, but as I was saying, the movie was actually quite disappointing.”
complex
“After the brief interruption by the committee members, the speaker cleared his throat and continued, as I was saying, the economic data suggests a significant shift in market trends.”
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