get a word in edgewise

英語

詞源

edgewise和edgeways (「邊緣向着移動方向地」)是比喻用法，比喻插話者能夠進入的間隙很小。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˌɡɛt ə ˈwɜːd ɪn ˈɛdʒwaɪz/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˌɡɛt ə ˈwɝd ɪn ˈɛdʒwaɪz/
• 斷字：get a word in edge‧wise

動詞

get a word in edgewise (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 gets a word in edgewise，現在分詞 getting a word in edgewise，過去式 got a word in edgewise，過去分詞 (UK) got a word in edgewise 或 (US) gotten a word in edgewise)

1. (美國，多用否定) 插嘴，插話

   Everyone was talking at once. I couldn’t get a word in edgewise.

   大家都同時說了起來，我插不上話。

   • [1778 December, 「[Original Letters. Miss Clifford to Miss Granby.] In Continuation.」, 出自 The Lady’s Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, London: Printed for G[eorge] Robinson, […], →OCLC，第 652 頁，第 1 列:

     The converſation at breakfaſt began on reading, which ſhe ſaid ſhe was extremely fond of, and Joſeph, her ladyſhip, and my papa, fell into ſuch a deep diſcourſe, that I verily thought they would never have finiſhed; for, believe me, I was quite out of patience, as neither mama nor I, could ſo much as put a ſingle word in edgewiſe; for they might as well have talked Greek to us, and we ſhould have underſtood them much the ſame.

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   • 1822, [James Colman], 「Letter VIII. The Contrast.」, 出自 Walks in the Country; or, Christian Sketches of Scenery, Life, and Character, in Familiar Letters, London: Printed for the author; published by James Nisbet, […], →OCLC，第 100–101 頁s:

     Accordingly she was exceedingly elevated; alternately singing pieces of hymns in a hobbling broken voice, having lost her teeth, breaking out into incoherent exclamations, and relating parts of her experience; while I had not room, which indeed I did not much require, to get a word in edgewise.

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   • 1962年9月11日, Jack Kerouac, 章號 13, 出自 Big Sur, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →OCLC; 再版為 Big Sur (Penguin Modern Classics), London: Penguin Books, 2012, →ISBN:

     We help him push his Nash down the street, then drink awhile and talk with Evelyn a beautiful blonde woman that young Ron Blake wants and even Dave Wain wants but she's got her mind on other things and taking care of the children who have to go to school and dancing classes in the morning and hardly gets a word in edgewise anyway as we all yak and yell like fools to impress her tho all she really wants is to be alone with me to talk about Cody and his latest soul.

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   • 1996, Louis Baldwin, 「Cokie Roberts: Political Commentator (1943– )」, 出自 Women of Strength: Biographies of 106 who have Excelled in Traditionally Male Fields, A.D. 61 to the Present, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN，第 177 頁:

     源自the women who write to her, Cokie Roberts has observed, "I get the feeling that the country is full of women who've never gotten a word in edgewise when the men talk politics."

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   • 1999, Zena Collier, 章號 3, 出自 A Cooler Climate, Lincoln, Neb.: toExcel Press, iUniverse, →ISBN，第 24 頁:

     I sat there, letting his voice run on. Even if I'd wanted to, I couldn't have gotten a word in edgeways. Perhaps if life continued thi way, I would gradually lose the faculty of speech, [...]

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   • 1999, Felicia Hughes-Freeland, 「Dance on Film: Strategy and Serendipity」, 出自 Theresa J. Buckland 編, Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Methodological Approaches)，第 117 頁:

     I only included the interview because it is revealing of Javanese gender relationships. The young dancer is muted and hardly gets a word in edgeways, as the (male) troupe leader and her mother hijack each question and provide answers which are sometimes contradictory.

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   • 2003, Sylvia Helmer, Catherine Eddy, 「ESL Learners and Communication」, 出自 Dyanne Rivers 編, Look at Me when I Talk to You: ESL Learners in Non-ESL Classrooms (Pippin Teacher’s Library; 39), Toronto, Ont.: Pippin Publishing Company, →ISBN，第 48 頁:

     [W]hen interacting with a member of a cultural group used to taking longer to reflect on what to say next, native English speakers virtually prevent this person from getting a word in edgewise. We feel compelled to fill the "uncomfortably long" silence with words.

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   • 2014, Ben Elton, 章號 5, 出自 Time and Time Again, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN，第 57 頁:

     Stanton stood up. It seemed the only way of getting a word in edgeways.

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   • 2014, Emma O』Reilly, with Shannon Kyle, 「Old Wounds」, 出自 The Race to Truth: Blowing the Whistle on Lance Armstrong and Cycling’s Doping Culture, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN，第 248 頁:

     Betsy rang me every now and then, but I couldn't get caught up in the 'fight' like she did. Besides, if I got a word in edgeways during each call I'd be lucky.

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   • 2015 February, Eva Gates, By Book or by Crook (A Lighthouse Library Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Obsidian, New American Library, →ISBN，第 313 頁:

     She must have nattered on for half an hour. Everyone else was gone when I finally got a word in edgewise and escaped.

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其他形式

• get a word in edgeways (英式)