present participle of get a word in edgeways

past participle of get a word in edgeways

simple past tense of get a word in edgeways / past participle of get a word in edgeways

To break a promise one has made.

(transitive) To take someone literally even though they may not have been serious; to take someone seriously even though they were joking; to take up a challenge that was initially meant as a joke.

(idiomatic) To do what one has just proposed or spoken of.

(idiomatic) A short and common word used in place of a longer and more uncommon one.

(rare) Alternative form of mark my words

plural of multi-word expression

(linguistics) An idiomatic expression that contains more than one word.