Quite unfairly they have said "the other place" and have been unable to get a word in edgeways.
He might get a word in edgeways, but would that time count against him?
He never forces his own opinion, and always lets other people have a word in edgeways.
Perhaps a woman may be allowed to get in a few words edgeways in this important debate.
None of us could get a word in edgeways.
Sometimes it was very difficult to get a word in edgeways.
What is printed is the angle on events of which they approve—anything of which they disapprove finds it difficult to get a word in edgeways.
She was not as fat as an envelope edgeways on.
