Possible Clues:

• Weariest - whacked, so to speak
• Are about to take the chair, we do this in a manner of speaking
• Sit we in are about here, in a manner of speaking
• Wear for the seated, by the sound of it, in a manner of speaking
• A sewer it is, in a manner of speaking
• Sweatier malfunction, so to speak
• In a way satire could be funny, we admitted
• Wear ties knotted in a way
• In the past, in a manner of speaking?
• Perhaps a seat we get about with, in a manner of speaking