elbow room

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I need (some) more elbow-room.
我需要大一些的活動空間。
One reason for elbow-room: 85 percent of water is used for agriculture.
存在一個可能的回旋余地的原因是：農業(yè)用水占85%。
And for those of you at the very end of the alphabet, 1-190 we have a special room for you, 1-190, so everybody has some elbow room.
而你在字母表的末尾，我們給準備了一個特別的房間，因此，每個人都有些活動空間。

And for those of you at the very end of the alphabet, 1-190 we have a special room for you, 1-190, so everybody has some elbow room.
而你在字母表的末尾，我們給準備了一個特別的房間，因此，每個人都有些活動空間。
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Elbow room is the freedom to do what you want to do or need to do in a particular situation.
If there is enough elbow room in a place or vehicle, it is not too small or too crowded.