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Elbow room   /ˈɛlbˌoʊ rum/   Listen
Elbow room

noun
1.
Space for movement.  Synonyms: room, way.  "Make way for" , "Hardly enough elbow room to turn around"






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"Elbow room" Quotes from Famous Books



... persistently upon us; the corporal and the tangible lose their hard outlines and begin to merge into the in visible—in such moments the soul grows. It is perhaps one of the disadvantages of a large family that the members are apt to lack what one might call spiritual elbow room, the constant close companionship, the fridging and rubbing of the continual, daily, hourly intercourse, though an excellent discipline for the temper, leaves scant opportunity for the development of the individuality. Gwen could not have explained this in the least, but as she stood in the ...
— The Youngest Girl in the Fifth - A School Story • Angela Brazil



Words linked to "Elbow room" :   seating, breathing room, seating room, spatial relation, position, way, parking, standing room, houseroom, living space, sea room, seats, headroom, seating area, headway, lebensraum, clearance, breathing space



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