ὡς εἰπεῖν ἔπος
From LSJ
νίψον ἀνομήματα, μὴ μόναν ὄψιν → wash the sins, not only the face | wash my transgressions, not only my face
Greek > English (Woodhouse)
almost, as the saying is, for instance, not to make a short matter long, one may say, practically, so to say, so to speak, to say it in a word, to use a figure of speech, we may say, what is more