From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishshall I/we sayshall I/we sayused when you are not quite sure how to describe someone or something He is, shall we say, slightly unusual. → say
Examples from the Corpus
shall I/we say• A prankster, shall we say?• She was a pretty fiery, and shall we say, a somewhat lusty character.• It has, shall we say, connotations!• What shall I say, eh, eh, eh?• Instead, he summoned Ford to Philadelphia, a place where Ford is, shall we say, known?• And what shall I say more?• In other words, you've got to have, shall we say, the equipment to go with the line.• Here's how it opens: What shall we say, then? 