to the effect that

to the effect that
{adj. phr.} With the meaning or purpose; to say that. * /He made a speech to the effect that we would all keep our jobs even if the factory were sold./ * /The new governor would do his best in the office to which he had been elected./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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