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• Drunk, with nothing to say, as it were
• Big drinker with enormous height, as you might say
• Figuratively
• Therefore playing tape's OK? In a way
• In some sense
• A pesto's OK, oddly, in a way
• As you might say
• "Not literally"
• Nothing in paste's OK when spread, as it were
• "... you know, metaphorically"