0 directly, or in a way that makes it very clear what you mean:
"Did he say he was unhappy with Anna?" "Well, not in so many words, but that was certainly the impression I got."
I told her, in so many words, to stop interfering.
1 directly:
I have never lied to him in so many words.
He didn't say it in so many words, for obvious reasons; rather, he spoke in a code that she didn't figure out until the next day.
In this case, medium selection is explicit in the sense that par ticipants have stated "in so many words" what they are doing here and now.
This subsection means, in so many words, that when the verdict is "guilty"it is given but that when it is"not guilty" there is absolute silence.
She was not in so many words asked whether she wanted legal aid.
He told us in so many words that we shall have to face this question from an entirely new point of view.
I do not say that it was in so many words, but that was the implied advice.
That was said in so many words in the television programme.
I think he said so in so many words.
