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get a word in edgeways

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get a word in edgeways  (British, American & Australian informal) also get a word in edgewise (American informal)
if you can't get a word in edgeways, you do not have an opportunity to say anything because someone is talking so much or so quickly Roz was talking so much that nobody else could get a word in edgeways.
See also: get, word


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Both at Paris and on the Rhine, and even in Switzerland--there are so many Poles, with their sympathisers, the French, at these tables d'hote that one cannot get a word in edgeways if one happens only to be a Russian.
 
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