this is one way to say it.

My grandfather is 74, and he plays golf every day – it's a sport you can play even as you head into the sunset, so to speak.

Even if New Yorkers obeyed all the rules, New York would still be, so to speak, an unruly city.

Usage notes: used to suggest that some people may not think this is a good way to say something

Related vocabulary: if you will, in other words

• rack up something
• rack your brain
• rack your brains
• rags-to-riches
• raining cats and dogs
• rain on parade
• rain on someone's parade
• rain or shine
• rainy day fund
• raise a few eyebrows
• raise a stink
• raise Cain
• raised eyebrows
• raise eyebrows
• raise game
• raise hackles
• raise hand against
• raise hand against someone
• raise hand to
• raise hand to someone
• raise hell
• raise its head
• raise its ugly head
• raise some eyebrows
• raise someone's hackles