Related Clues:

• Was nothing reckoned to have been dealt with, in a manner of speaking (6)
• Spoke of the alternative to a boy, it seems
• The alternative to a boy, in a manner of speaking
• the alternative to a boy, or so it is said
• Nothing reckoned, in a manner of speaking
• How one, or a boy, made a speech
• Nothing valued, in a manner of speaking
• Made a speech of the alternative to a boy
• Spoke from a podium
• Had the floor
• Held the floor getting a ring valued
• Gave people your address
• Talked pompously
• Presented an address
• Made a speech at flipping party over cost