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elbow aside

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elbow someone aside
to push someone aside with one's elbow or arm. She elbowed the other woman aside and there was almost a fight. The rude woman elbowed aside all the other people.
See also: aside, elbow


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Harmison, as yet, has done little to elbow aside other contenders, but Stuart Broad has perhaps edged ahead of James Anderson.
I am beginning to think that the dual (and linked) roles of gestalt and what I call 'screening' -- an animal's ability to screen out and screen in, from an undigested mess of information, what it must focus upon and what it must elbow aside in order to make that focus -- are absolutely central to the evolution of a functioning intelligence.
Huge national players usually have the capital and marketing budgets to elbow aside mom-and-pop firms.
 
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