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Definition of elbow room in English: elbow roomnoun mass nouninformal Adequate space to move or work in. 〈非正式〉充足的空间，充分的活动余地 a restaurant with more elbow room Example sentencesExamples - Some people have a real need for elbow room, for the wide open spaces that cannot any longer be found on Earth.
- What the move has done is give everyone much more elbow room.
- It's not that they're anti-social, but folks in North Huntingdon Township apparently like their elbow room.
- Sometimes the ‘text’ leaves lots of interpretative elbow room, but sometimes it doesn't.
- There will be a new dashboard and centre console with new instrument layout and seating, with above average headroom, elbow room and rear passenger legroom due to its 2.46 metre long wheelbase.
- There is barely elbow room and if the person eating next to you spills ‘sambar’ into your coffee, take it in your stride.
- Tourists and locals alike queue for a table, then jostle for elbow room while devouring platefuls of galuska and prokolt (stew).
- Shoppers were enthusiastic about the extra elbow room, long stretches of frozen food, and the strangely fresh leafy greens sitting under fluorescent lights.
- Well, no more elbow room in the race for the White House.
- Solicitors, guards, the press and members of the public jostled for elbow room in the tiny courthouse last Wednesday as the Judge did her best to deal with the court list.
- One can be left in place and used as a couch while the other is stowed away allowing more than enough elbow room to move round.
- The outer two seats can then be moved slightly inward to give much more elbow room, making it just that little bit harder for little brother to torment big sister with a rubber band.
- The rapidly-growing firm, which has extended into five Georgian cottages in Monkgate, now has elbow room to expand and maintain a large car parking area for customers.
- Even so, they needed to give him some elbow room.
- Giving children and adults considerably more elbow room, community greens help promote a sense of extended family, drawing the neighborhood more tightly together.
- The deteriorating quality and the shrinking greenery around the city adds weight to the proposal to provide it a little more elbow room or breathing space.
- People have to compete with each other for elbow room and breathing space, both of which are in short supply.
- Two temperamental artists wielding brushes and curling irons battled for elbow room.
- It is all a question of elbow room within the building as well as outside where we need yard space for accepting deliveries from publishers and have increasing need for our delivery vans.
- We not only want elbow room, but eye room in this grey air which shrouds all the fields.
Synonyms room to manoeuvre, room, space, breathing space, scope, freedom, play, free rein, licence, latitude, leeway, margin, clearance German Lebensraum
Definition of elbow room in US English: elbow roomnounˈɛlboʊ ˌrum informal Adequate space to move or work in. 〈非正式〉充足的空间，充分的活动余地 the car has elbow room for four adults figurative Quebec wants a little more elbow room within the federation Example sentencesExamples - It's not that they're anti-social, but folks in North Huntingdon Township apparently like their elbow room.
- It is all a question of elbow room within the building as well as outside where we need yard space for accepting deliveries from publishers and have increasing need for our delivery vans.
- There will be a new dashboard and centre console with new instrument layout and seating, with above average headroom, elbow room and rear passenger legroom due to its 2.46 metre long wheelbase.
- What the move has done is give everyone much more elbow room.
- We not only want elbow room, but eye room in this grey air which shrouds all the fields.
- Two temperamental artists wielding brushes and curling irons battled for elbow room.
- Sometimes the ‘text’ leaves lots of interpretative elbow room, but sometimes it doesn't.
- Shoppers were enthusiastic about the extra elbow room, long stretches of frozen food, and the strangely fresh leafy greens sitting under fluorescent lights.
- People have to compete with each other for elbow room and breathing space, both of which are in short supply.
- The rapidly-growing firm, which has extended into five Georgian cottages in Monkgate, now has elbow room to expand and maintain a large car parking area for customers.
- There is barely elbow room and if the person eating next to you spills ‘sambar’ into your coffee, take it in your stride.
- Giving children and adults considerably more elbow room, community greens help promote a sense of extended family, drawing the neighborhood more tightly together.
- Some people have a real need for elbow room, for the wide open spaces that cannot any longer be found on Earth.
- One can be left in place and used as a couch while the other is stowed away allowing more than enough elbow room to move round.
- The deteriorating quality and the shrinking greenery around the city adds weight to the proposal to provide it a little more elbow room or breathing space.
- Solicitors, guards, the press and members of the public jostled for elbow room in the tiny courthouse last Wednesday as the Judge did her best to deal with the court list.
- Even so, they needed to give him some elbow room.
- The outer two seats can then be moved slightly inward to give much more elbow room, making it just that little bit harder for little brother to torment big sister with a rubber band.
- Tourists and locals alike queue for a table, then jostle for elbow room while devouring platefuls of galuska and prokolt (stew).
- Well, no more elbow room in the race for the White House.
Synonyms room to manoeuvre, room, space, breathing space, scope, freedom, play, free rein, licence, latitude, leeway, margin, clearance
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