edgewise

柯林斯詞典

edgeways /??d??wa?z/ (also edgewise)

[美國英語]

• 1. ADV with the edge forwards or uppermost 從旁邊

  they carried the piano in edgeways

• 2. PHRASE If you say that you cannot get a word in edgewise, you are complaining that you do not have the opportunity to speak because someone else is talking so much. 插嘴[非正式]

  Ernest dominated the conversation - Zhou could hardly get a word in edgewise. 歐內(nèi)斯特滔滔不絕地說著 — 周幾乎無法插上話。

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