edgeways
adv. 以刃向外,从旁边; 沿边
If you say that you cannot get a word in edgeways, you are complaining that you do not have the opportunity to speak because someone else is talking so much.
He spent all the time talking and they could not get a word in edgeways.
他一直说个不停,他们都插不上嘴。
1. as if by an edge; barely;
2. with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge;
get a word in edgeways
(在别人谈话时艰难地)插嘴
You'll only get the desk through the door if you turn it edgeways.
你要把书桌侧着才能搬过这道门。
He spent all the time talking and they could not get a word in edgeways.
他一直说个不停,他们都插不上嘴。
He talks so much that no one else can get a word in edgeways.
他讲得太多了,别人一句话也插不上嘴.
He talked on and on and nobody else could get a word in edgeways.
他说个没完,别人半句话也插不进.
If you turn it edgeways you'll get the desk through the door.
你把书桌斜过来就能通过这道门.