по крайней мере, мне так сказали(досл. "или (если быть точным) так мне (по крайней мере) было сказано": I know it's hard to believe, but some gay men do know and actually follow sports. Now I'm not one of those men, but those men do exist (or so I’ve been told…)pride.comShabe)
рассказывать байки(по-русски обычно во множ. числе: "If you say so," I said. "But I don't see why Menendez would bother to come up here and tell me a yarn and warn me to keep my nose clean on account of Lennox was a pal of him and Randy Starr in Vegas and they didn't want anybody fooling around." (Raymond Chandler)ART Vancouver)