Communication
get a word in edgeways
manage to speak
If you get a word in edgeways, you manage to speak while someone else is talking a lot.
Hear it in real life
How was dinner with your cousins?
Fun, but I could barely get a word in edgeways.
He talks so quickly that it is hard to get a word in edgeways.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: get a word on edgeways
Say: get a word in edgeways
The fixed phrase uses 'in,' not 'on.' 'Edgeways' is especially common in British English; 'edgewise' is common in American English.
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How it fits in a sentence.
get a word in edgeways; get a word in edgewise
Your turn: say it out loud
He talks so quickly that it is hard to get a word in edgeways.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
get a word in edgeways
manage to speak
“He talks so quickly that it is hard to get a word in edgeways.”
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