OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 52908

get a word in edgewise

/ˌɡɛt ə ˈwɜːd ɪn ˈɛdʒwaɪz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
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To break into or participate in a conversation, especially where there is much interruption by other speakers.
Accordingly she was exceedingly elevated; alternately singing pieces of hymns in a hobbling broken voice, having lost her teeth, breaking out into incoherent exclamations, and rela…
Everyone was talking at once. I couldn’t get a word in edgewise.
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