get a word in edgewise

基本解釋

• 插嘴；插一句話

英漢例句

雙語(yǔ)例句

• Jean didn't let me get a word in edgewise.
  珍不讓我有插話的機(jī)會(huì)。
• When I talk, it isn 't always easy for others to get a word in edgewise.
  儅我談到某個(gè)話題的時(shí)候，很容易被別人誤解爲(wèi)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，既警惕又処於一種自我保護(hù)的狀態(tài)，讓男人根本聽(tīng)不進(jìn)去一個(gè)詞，有時(shí)就直接忽略了她們的說(shuō)辤。

權(quán)威例句

• 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.
  CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Silencing dissent in America
• Faneuil couldn't get in a word edgewise, he said.
  FORBES: Martha Trial: 'Everyone Is Telling The Same Story'

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