edgeways

"I'm the nobody who can't get a word in edgeways anyhow," she said.

Say, fellows, why won't some of you let me get a word in edgeways?

But you know I said just now that some leaves were not flat, but set upright, edgeways.

She poked the truth at them edgeways, the truth that is, as she saw it.

I never can get a word in edgeways when I'm with you,' she returned.

Heimskringla does not say "edgeways," but this is the clear meaning.

Mrs. Simmons asked as soon as she could slip a word in edgeways.

You never could get a word in edgeways when Livingstone was in the room, anyhow.

They was talkative, and battering at the hatch with an ax, so I'd hardly a word in edgeways.

The crew looked frightened and the coach couldn't get a word in edgeways.