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get a word in edgewise
Idioms and Phrases
Also, get a word in edgeways . Insert oneself into a conversation or express one's opinion despite competition from other speakers. For example, So many people had questions for the lecturer that it was hard to get a word in edgewise , or Nancy loves to talk, and I couldn't get a word in edgeways . This idiom, often put in the negative, transfers an object with its edge foremost to inserting conversation. [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
I saw Trump and Vance steamrolling President Zelensky and refusing to let him get a word in edgewise.
The show assembled a panel of faux-MSNBC hosts who couldn't get a word in edgewise over constant breaking news alerts that Trump offered a trade of Connecticut for Italy or declared a "war on sharks."
Kamala Harris could hardly get a word in edgewise during her interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, but when she did she made it count.
As Rogovoy astutely writes, Harrison “was one of four, and if sometimes it was hard to get a word in edgewise when your bandmates were the wickedly outrageous John Lennon, the voluble Paul McCartney, and the affable Ringo Starr, Harrison made every word count. His wit was as quick and biting as Lennon's. He did not suffer fools gladly—by the evidence of his songs, he despised them.â€
With the words he gave Philip still ringing in his ears, creator Peter Morgan proceeded to relegate the “essence of all our duty†increasingly to the back pew; by the first half of the sixth and final season, which premiered last month, Imelda Staunton’s Elizabeth II was lucky to get a word in edgewise.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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