I don't want to sound like a busybody, but

I don't want to sound like a busybody, but

Fig. an expression used to introduce an opinion or suggestion. Bob: I don't want to sound like a busybody, but didn't you intend to have your house painted? Bill: Well, I guess I did. Bob: I don't want to sound like a busybody, but some of your neighbors wonder if you could stop parking your car on your lawn. Sally: I'll thank you to mind your own business!
See also: but, like, sound, want
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • give (one) the fig
  • go to one's head, to
  • eat someone out of house and home, to
  • (not) give a fig
  • fig
  • (not) care a fig
  • avoid like the plague, to
  • a fig leaf
  • fig leaf
  • didn