get a word in edgewise
基本解释
- 插嘴；插一句话
英汉例句
- Jean didn't let me get a word in edgewise.
珍不让我有插话的机会。 - When I talk, it isn 't always easy for others to get a word in edgewise.
当我谈到某个话题的时候，很容易被别人误解为别的意思。 - Similarly, women can be so chatty, on guard or defensive at times, that the men can’t get a word in edgewise and when they do we jump all over them without hearing them out.
相似得，女人非常喋喋不休，既警惕又处于一种自我保护的状态，让男人根本听不进去一个词，有时就直接忽略了她们的说辞。 - Earlier this month former prime minister Ehud Olmert - who during his tenure in office offered the Palestinians more than any of his predecessors - could barely get a word in edgewise above the clamor of students at the University of Chicago cursing him as a war criminal.
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