("Touch the guitar", my old Spanish teacher's daughter would say, instead of "Play the guitar").
Whenever money came in, colleagues say, instead of investing it in his company he spent it.
"Let's say instead of Khamenei's appointed figures, former intelligence ministers get into the Assembly.
(Bamboo floors, say, instead of oak; wool carpeting instead of synthetic).
He is forever seeking the proper, profound thing to say, instead of just stating what he feels.
So, say, instead of doing squats on the ground, I'll do them standing on a Swiss ball.
Let's reverse this and say, instead of being a designated hitter, you can be a designated fielder.
It should have grouped the cases, they say, instead of trying dozens of complex individual crimes one at a time.
Let's say, instead of whatever you're actually doing, that you're standing on the little wooden deck of my house.
He was a scholar who roamed the lab, former students say, instead of working from an office.
More and more young people want powerful mints, market researchers say, instead of just mint-flavored gums.
