edgeways
adv. 以刃向外,從旁邊; 沿邊
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.
他一直說個不停,他們都插不上嘴。
1. as if by an edge; barely;
2. with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge;
get a word in edgeways
(在別人談話時艱難地)插嘴
You'll only get the desk through the door if you turn it edgeways.
你要把書桌側著才能搬過這道門。
He spent all the time talking and they could not get a word in edgeways.
他一直說個不停,他們都插不上嘴。
He talks so much that no one else can get a word in edgeways.
他講得太多了,別人一句話也插不上嘴.
He talked on and on and nobody else could get a word in edgeways.
他說個沒完,別人半句話也插不進.
If you turn it edgeways you'll get the desk through the door.
你把書桌斜過來就能透過這道門.