Idiom: If you will

 

"If you will"


Meaning

  • If you will, meaning if you will allow me to use this phrase, is a hedge phrase, and it could usually be removed. 
  • You can say "If you will" when politely inviting a listener or reader to do something or when using an unusual or fanciful term.
  • Used to say that a particular expression is one way of saying something, especially to suggest that some people may not choose to say it that way.
  • It basically means that you are asking for the person to accept your use of a term, a word, an image, etc.

Similar Expression : If you like, so to speak, as you might say


Note: 

Used to suggest that some people may not think this is a good way to say something. Will here means want, desire, wish and the idiom if you will means "If you want". It's like saying "if you want to call it that". Writers often use it to apologize for a weak phrase—often a bad metaphor, a corny coinage, or a phrase the writer is reluctant to use. And sometimes it’s used when a writer doesn’t trust his or her readers to understand a metaphor


Example Sentences

  • I did very well in school , with a "genius IQ" if you will.
  • She's very kind-minded, if you will. I've never met anyone who thinks so much about how to help people.
  • This arrangement will allow us to eliminate our debt and get back to solid ground, if you will.
  • It’s relaxation; another form of meditation, if you will.
  • We're riding to work together tomorrow, a carpool, if you will.
  • To be honest , real love comes only once in a lifetime , if you will.
  • He wasn't a very honest person, a liar, if you will.
  • He is, if you will, a bit too cruel to his wife.
  • They were all very similar. All cut from the same cloth, if you will.
  • Patients with cancer, I believe, die from a negative state of stress, if you will.
  • This sweet-and-salty squash recipe can be done with most hearty orange vegetables, like sweet potatoes or carrots. You can fully enjoy a thanksgiving “orange food moment,” if you will. 
  • People are at home. We have a little bit of a captive audience, if you will, and people are eager to interact with someone.


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