Idioms
See unquote in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryquote (… unquote)
(also quote, unquote)
- (informal) used to show the beginning (and end) of a word, phrase, etc. that has been said or written by somebody else
- It was quote, ‘the hardest decision of my life’, unquote, and one that he lived to regret.
- now that the, quote, unquote, ‘real story’ has begun
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