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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: edgeways, get, word