ТАК И ТАК МОЛ

• ТАК И ТАК (МОЛ <ДЕСКАТЬ>; ТАК-ТО И ТАК-ТО••all coll

[Invar; sent adv (parenth)]

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⇒ used to indicate that what one is about to say repeats or conveys what was said by o.s. or another at an earlier time; when used with a verb of speaking, adds colloquial flavor to the verb and reinforces that one is repeating words spoken earlier:

- he says (I said etc);

- he says, well, he says that (I said, well, I said that... etc);

- he says (I said etc), you know (, that)...;

- he goes (I went etc);

- (go to see s.o. <write to s.o. etc>) to say, well, to say (that)...

     ♦ Если бы она написала мужу ешё в войну: так и так, мол, встретила человека... ей бы не в чем было упрекнуть себя... Но как раз вот этого-то она и не сделала. Не хватило духу. Пожалела (Абрамов 1). If she had written to her husband during the war to say, well, to say that she had met someone...she would have had nothing to reproach herself with. ...But that was precisely what she had not done. She hadn't had the heart. She had taken pity on him... (1a).