get a word in edgewise
基本解釋
- 插嘴；插一句話
英漢例句
- Jean didn't let me get a word in edgewise.
珍不讓我有插話的機會。 - When I talk, it isn 't always easy for others to get a word in edgewise.
當我談到某個話題的時候，很容易被別人誤解為別的意思。 - Similarly, women can be so chatty, on guard or defensive at times, that the men can’t get a word in edgewise and when they do we jump all over them without hearing them out.
相似得，女人非常喋喋不休，既警惕又處于一種自我保護的狀態(tài)，讓男人根本聽不進去一個詞，有時就直接忽略了她們的說辭。 - Earlier this month former prime minister Ehud Olmert - who during his tenure in office offered the Palestinians more than any of his predecessors - could barely get a word in edgewise above the clamor of students at the University of Chicago cursing him as a war criminal.
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