OXFORD 9000
📚 prep_phrase • entry_id 31103

by the way

Meanings (ES + gloss)
a propósito • a todo esto • de paso • dicho sea de paso • hablando de todo un poco • hablando un poco de todo • por cierto
Incidentally; used in referencing a parenthetical statement not timely, central, or crucial to the topic at hand; foregone, passed by, something that has already happened.
His mother will be coming for dinner tomorrow, and, by the way, she recently sold her collection of ceramic eggs.
[…] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way.
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