Possible Clues:

• As it were
• In a way
• Figuratively
• If one may use that expression
• Local drunk gets around with small crown, if you get my drift metaphorically
• Very large tip is down to drunk, as it were
• Very large tip given by habitual drunkard, as one might put it
• You might say
• Drunk around boozy spot beginning to exclaim as it were
• Note time bone reaches highest point, as it were