Possible Clues:

• Drunk, with nothing to say, as it were
• Drunk rounds reach a high, if you will
• As it might be said
• As it were, use a needle cryptically?
• Sew, as it were?
• "... you know, metaphorically"
• Big drinker with enormous height, as you might say
• Therefore playing tape's OK? In a way
• In some sense
• A pesto's OK, oddly, in a way