edgeways

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edge·wise

(ĕj′wīz′) also edge·ways (-wāz′)

adv.

1. With the edge foremost.

2. On, by, with, or toward the edge.

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edgeways

(ˈɛdʒˌweɪz) or

edgewise

adv

1. with the edge forwards or uppermost: they carried the piano in edgeways.

2. on, by, with, or towards the edge: he held it edgeways.

3. get a word in edgeways (usually used with a negative) to succeed in interrupting a conversation in which someone else is talking incessantly

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Adv.	1.	edgeways - as if by an edge; barely; "I could not get a word in edgewise" edgewise
	2.	edgeways - with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge; "he sawed the board edgeways"; "held it edgewise" edgewise

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edgeways

[ˈedʒweɪz] edgewise [ˈedʒwaɪz] ADV → de lado, de canto
I couldn't get a word in edgeways → no pude meter baza

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

edgeways

[ˈedʒweɪz] adv [move] → latéralement
he couldn't get a word in edgeways → il ne pouvait pas placer un mot, il ne pouvait pas en placer une

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

edgeways

adv → mit der Schmalseite voran; I couldn’t get a word in edgeways → ich bin überhaupt nicht zu Wort gekommen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

edgeways

[ˈɛdʒˌweɪz] adv → di fianco
I couldn't get a word in edgeways (fam) → non sono riuscito a infilare neppure una parola

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Old Hank Bunker done it once, and bragged about it; and in less than two years he got drunk and fell off of the shot-tower, and spread him- self out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn't see it.

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Try to keep quiet for a moment, and see how it would seem; a body can't get in a word edgeways, you talk so much.

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Some of the little farms on the hillside opposite Heidelberg were stood up "edgeways." The boy was wonderfully jolted up, and his head was bleeding, from cuts which it had got from small stones on the way.

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This may be illustrated by placing books edgeways on a carpet, and then, after the manner suggested by Michell, imitating the undulations of an earthquake: it will be found that they fall with more or less readiness, according as their direction more or less nearly coincides with the line of the waves.

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The axe would be placed edgeways towards the archer, and he would have to shoot his arrow through the hole into which the handle was fitted when the axe was in use.

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Both at Paris and on the Rhine, and even in Switzerland--there are so many Poles, with their sympathisers, the French, at these tables d'hote that one cannot get a word in edgeways if one happens only to be a Russian."

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When Pickering starts shouting nobody can get a word in edgeways.

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He could not judge the distance, and they flew edgeways to him, so as to conceal the broader aspect of their bulk.

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And luck-bringing Hermes, the son of Zeus, passed edgeways through the key-hole of the hall like the autumn breeze, even as mist: straight through the cave he went and came to the rich inner chamber, walking softly, and making no noise as one might upon the floor.

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The other took it, and began to examine it; he smoothed it between his fingers, and held it up to the light; he turned it over, and upside down, and edgeways. It was new and rather stiff, and that made him dubious.

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Kyle had become a monster, screaming into the faces of people who couldn't even get a word in edgeways.

Why I used to watch the Jeremy Kyle Show -- Susan Morrison

All I wanted was to listen to him talk about his work but I couldn't get a word in edgeways as he fired off football questions.