if you will

English

Please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction.
But imagine, if you will, a world where these logistical problems were solved.
So to speak, like; used to indicate that a description is not standard.
Coordinate terms: as it were, in a way, to an extent

These are "partial artifacts", if you will: the imaging process has merely amplified flaws that were already present in the original.
- 2001, Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 28:
  Today's blackenization, if you will, of the prisons only exacerbates racist proclivities in nonblack Americans to associate black people with wrong.
Used in conceding a description or choice of terms.
Coordinate term: you said it

He wasn't a very honest person; a liar, if you will.

conceding a description