Definition of elbow in English:

elbow

noun ˈɛlbəʊˈɛlˌboʊ

1The joint between the forearm and the upper arm.
肘
she propped herself up on one elbow
她用一只胳膊肘撑着身子。
Example sentencesExamples
- When you cough, do you cough into your hand or into your elbow on the sleeve?
- Now, he wears neoprene sleeves over his elbows, and he uses machines for his presses.
- The sleeves ended between her elbow and her shoulder, and the overall effect was stunning.
- The rash usually affects the wrists, ankles, elbows, lower back or genitals, but other parts of the body can also be affected.
- Not only does he have enough pouches to store all kinds of oats and grains, he also has a chain mail sleeve for his elbow!
- The dress went to the floor, and the sleeves were to her elbows.
- Take care not to lock out your hips, elbows or shoulder joints on this one.
- I tugged gently at the sleeves of my shirt which were cuffed almost to my elbows.
- Valgus stress is applied to the elbow with maximal forearm pronation.
- With the knife held like a pen between his fingers, Matt slid his sleeve up to his elbow.
- Grabbing her other arm, he pulled the sleeve up to her elbow.
- His blue plaid shirt was rolled up to his elbows at the sleeves and his feet were bare as well.
- This presents with a maculopapular rash and arthralgia, typically affecting the wrist, knees, elbows, and ankles.
- The hem hung down to mid-thigh and the sleeves reached my elbows.
- He came out of the Colts' shower area after the game wearing a large bandage on his elbow, a sleeve over his lower leg and a towel.
- It is now possible to replace almost all the joints of the body, including hips, knees, elbows, shoulders, ankles, and fingers.
- I wore a cotton swimming costume reaching to my knees and with sleeves to the elbow.
- The elbow is a joint that serves to move the distal extremity to position the hand for fine motor activities.
- He had doffed his suit jacket, undone his vest buttons, and rolled his sleeves just below his elbows.
- It revealed a soft cotton undershirt, with sleeves to his elbows.
Synonyms
arm joint, bend of the arm
1. 1.1 The part of the sleeve of a garment covering the elbow.
  （衣服的）肘部
  I darned the elbows of my corduroy jacket
  Example sentencesExamples
  The dress puffed out below the waist, and had puffy sleeves, until the elbow, where they became skin-tight.
  On the elbows of the sleeves were silver stripes and it was the same on the knees.
  The girl glared back at her with dead brown eyes and grabbed onto her right coat sleeve, at the elbow.
  Under it she wore a crisp white shift whose sleeves puffed at the elbow.
  Taking a deep breath, she rolled her sleeves up to the elbow and, wincing a little, reached all the way inside the hole.
  He pulled up his right sleeve to the elbow and injected the drug into a visible vein.
  Critical zones on a gown are the cuff to the elbow, sleeve seams, and the front of the gown.
  I rolled the sleeves up to the elbow and ran my hand through my hair.
  The bell rang and Mr. Walker stood up and rolled up his sleeves to the elbow.
  For extra attention, select a cardigan with small pockets or leather patches on the elbows.
2. 1.2 A thing resembling an elbow, in particular a piece of piping bent through an angle.
  肘状物；（管子等的）弯曲部；L形弯管
  a cross-fitting with elbows and straight pipework
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unfortunately most gutter installers simply terminate the downspout with an elbow at the bottom.
  To avoid damage to the water inlet valve or other connections, grasp the elbow with a pipe wrench and apply counterpressure.
  On each occasion a kink, jerk or quirk was evident in his action that seemed to come from the straightening of a bent elbow.
  Use ridged flex aluminum or ridged four-inch elbows and straight vent pipe to vent your dryer.
  He supplied the elbow in two pieces for easy field installation.
  Synonyms
  bend, joint, curve, corner, (right) angle, crook
  technical flexure

verb ˈɛlbəʊˈɛlˌboʊ

1with object and adverbial Push or strike (someone) with one's elbow.
用肘击打（某人）
one player had elbowed another in the face
一个球员用肘部击打了另一个球员的脸部。
Example sentencesExamples
- I narrowed my eyes and pushed the trolley past her, making sure to elbow her as I went past.
- The English player accused the Frenchman of deliberately elbowing him in the face after he was left with a broken nose.
- He elbowed the man in the face as he was struck in the side by one of the previous attackers.
- ‘Oh, and look at that,’ he said, elbowing me and nodding toward a woman wearing tight ski pants.
- She has already battled in front of me, elbowing me in the arm sharply as she went.
- But by 6 pm, invaders had already taken over the band, jostling, pushing and elbowing anyone in their path, forcing reluctant revelers to the sides of the road.
- She had been there for one instant, and then gone again; no one around him seemed to have noticed, and the people pushed past him rudely, shoving and elbowing him on the street.
- Add to that the speeding fine and a five-match ban for elbowing an opponent.
- The second his back was on me, I elbowed him hard and pushed him towards the other guy, who had slowly stood up.
- Logan pushed his way through the crowd, elbowing people left and right.
- A plucky schoolboy fought off a robber who tried to steal his sweet money by elbowing him in the stomach.
- They grab him, one on each arm, he elbows the person in the chest.
- When someone elbows you a little - give him a chance to excuse himself, then smile and shrug it off.
- Miller later got himself booked and was back in the wars towards the end when Gary Smith accused him of elbowing him in the face.
- But he could come under video scrutiny after elbowing another player in the head during the final quarter.
- As long as no-one elbows you in the face on the last day.
- ‘I was physically elbowed and had my feet trodden on,’ Senator Brown said.
- Players are elbowing opponents and get one match ban, it is quite amazing.
- Atkinson was attempting to push away a player who he claimed was trying to elbow him in the face.
- The policeman could be seen elbowing the prisoner twice in the shoulder area of his back during the struggle.
Synonyms
push (one's way), shove (one's way), force (one's way), shoulder (one's way), jostle (one's way), nudge, muscle, bulldoze, bludgeon one's way
1. 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move by pushing past people with one's elbows.
  用肘挤着前进，用肘推
  he elbowed his way through the crush
  他疯狂地从拥挤的人群中挤过去。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Which means I'm on a mission: elbowing my way past strangers, zig-zagging between cars, even occasionally breaking into a uncharacteristically moderately paced stroll.
  That's where the kids who were fighting decided to get off too, pushing and elbowing their way past the other people who were trying to get off.
  Now, I shove and elbow and do karate moves and eye gouges just to get down the hallway.
  Ian elbowed past him silently and went upstairs.
  Again there was a delay at the barrier and all the leaving passengers had to elbow their way past us.
  My adrenaline kicked in and I abruptly elbowed my way through the crowd, past the insulting conductor, and back on the train.
  Three suitors elbowed past Derick, but he was concentrating so hard on the scenery that he hardly noticed.
  She took the bowl of chips and elbowed past us to the parlor.
  A horde of journalists was camping outside the building, and Ann had had to push and elbow her way past them.
  She then elbowed her way past James and into the hallway, making sure to slam the door on the way out.
  After elbowing my way past four lanes of inferior bowlers, I finally reached her.
  She elbowed past Lucas and headed straight for Theo.
  He elbowed his way past his brother's hands and grabbed for a sushi roll, stuffing the whole thing in his mouth.
  Wouldn't it be interesting if the organisation and the referees get really tough on the pulling, dragging and elbowing that passes for football.
  An ensign elbowed past her into the elevator as she walked out onto the bridge.
  Several tradesmen elbowed their way past him as they descended into one pit or another.
  At once, there was intense jostling and elbowing.
  More than 40 customers elbowing for bargains at a discount sale in a local supermarket last week fell down stairs where two received fatal injuries.
  Grampa and Granma congratulate Tom on getting out of jail, and elbow past him to the breakfast table.
  On the way out, Oscar bumped into another group of guards, who gave him dark looks and elbowed past.
2with object and adverbial Treat (a person or idea) dismissively.
the issues which concerned them tended to be elbowed aside by men
有关他们的问题往往被男人们丢在一旁。
Example sentencesExamples
- At ground level, a bistro and book shop have been elbowed aside to create a senselessly spacious foyer, floored in black basalt.
- If the big racecourses get their way, the smaller tracks will be elbowed aside in a rush for the extra fixtures promised.
- With this kind of competition, Pressler can only hope he won't be elbowed aside.
- The play is set at a time when an indulgent old order was elbowed aside by brash, pragmatic modernisers, a process so widely witnessed in the past century that it has always seemed relevant.
- It is time to elbow them aside and fill up the galleries with the rest of us.
- The Keystone state produced half the global supply of petroleum until Texas elbowed it aside in 1901.
- In a typical yogurt aisle, the plain yogurt is elbowed aside by a panoply of trays, tubs, and tubes in which sugar, granola, and even candy have replaced some of the yogurt.
- The current chairman, a businessman and former police commissioner, is said to have been elbowed aside by Reilly.
- The community is conservative so we didn't exactly have queues, recalls a researcher who went from door to door seeking girls who had been elbowed out of the education system.
- At some point - maybe in a year or two, after we reach 1 million users - I'll probably need to be elbowed aside.
- In the corridors of power he was seen as too close to the players, too much of a social animal and was consequently elbowed aside by the Union.
- Clinical governance is elbowed aside as clinical priority too often takes second place to the ‘long waiter.’
- If it's only the former, they risk being elbowed aside by a host of other teams out there who know what they are after and why.
- And I sincerely doubt that they've made a systematic and concerted effort to remedy that situation since elbowing me out of the picture.
- The classics have gradually been elbowed aside in favour of more unusual music: Villa Lobos last spring, for example, and an all - American programme just before it.
- The fact that they have been elbowed aside by the arrival of the new company on the scene has left many bitter with the way they have been treated.
- The next election, expected in only six months time, could perhaps be as important as the one of 1923 when the old Liberal party was irreversibly elbowed aside by Labour.
- The nominal Health Secretary rose without trace and now been elbowed aside by the Prime Minister himself.
- And I'm not entirely sure yet which is going to elbow the other aside.
- Tall tales were woven around the 1830 Revolution, notably to the effect that the landed aristocracy had been elbowed aside by bourgeois groups.

Phrases

at one's elbow

Close at hand; nearby.
在手头；在附近
he was standing at her elbow, holding out her glass
Example sentencesExamples
- Because I think that if you're at his elbow, day in, day out, hour in, hour out, you can't expect him to be guarded all the time.
- You want to find an easy chair with by a fire and have a brandy at your elbow and your feet up (along with a large circle of friends and family all gathered round in eager expectation).
- With spirits whirling through his Christmas, Dickens still has one hand nudging at your elbow and another just resisting a clutch at a pretty girl's skirt.
- Some wasted looking guy kept hanging around at my elbow.
- I could feel the invisible billions at my elbow, also watching.
- I had a live database of Caribbean history and culture right at my elbow, along with visiting professors.
- You should, in the pecking order of these things, have both an open packet of local cigarettes and a battered classic travel book at your elbow.
- And pretty soon, we will end up in a circumstance, I fear, where academic researchers will find it very difficult to pursue their best and brightest ideas without a phalanx of lawyers at their elbow.
- I talked to a Colombian film-maker who I thought of having at my elbow, but finally the producer and I decided that with all of the actors we had on board, we really did have those voices there already.
- And Tom started toward an edge of the group, and she followed close at his elbow, in his sandy footprints.

give someone the elbow
用肘击打（某人）

informal Reject or dismiss someone.
I tried to get her to give him the elbow
我试图让她抛弃他。
she decided to give tradition the elbow
〈喻〉她决定抛开传统。
Example sentencesExamples
- I have been married for 17 years, and I am not planning to give him the elbow.
- But there's a few loyal sons eager to give her the elbow.
- This reviewer gives the all inclusive buffet the elbow.
- You should give pain the elbow.
- He had turned bitter when she gave him the elbow for another man, and bombarded her with silent phone calls until police warned him off.
Synonyms
dismiss, axe, give someone notice, make redundant, throw out, get rid of, lay off, let go, discharge

up to one's elbows in

1informal With one's hands plunged in (something)
〈非正式〉把手插入（某物）
I was up to my elbows in the cheese-potato mixture
我把手伸进了奶酪土豆泥里。
Example sentencesExamples
- When Dolly arrived ready for her drink I was still there, up to my elbows in steamy water, having moved only now and again to run a little more hot water in so as to keep the temperature up.
- Want to be up to your elbows in grease with some hunky blokes?
- We find the Dr. Hawking at work in the apartment's living room, wearing his lab coat and up to his elbows in what used to the apartment's fridge, now lying on its back and being converted into a homeostochastic chamber.
- And there is a picture of a solo mother doing what most mothers do - standing up to their elbows in the sink and making sure their children are fed.
- But for now, while you are up to your elbows in sandpits and play dough, the world around you is overwhelmingly female.
- And Ewood fans will be able to grab an unusual souvenir thanks to the kind-hearted players who got up to their elbows in paint.
- I just love the idea of all these executives up to their elbows in suds washing all the cars belonging to their staff.
- Foss recounts the time she walked into the back galley to find a colleague up to her elbows in a rubbish bin, rooting through passengers' trash.
- I was also up to my elbows in acrylics - we were staying with friends who have a built in cupboard in the dining room with a rounded head: there is thus a more or less semicircular top to the thing.
- Getting up to our elbows in textures, fabrics, metals, is just as exciting to us as a palette of colors and blank canvas was to Picasso.
- As I sat there up to my elbows in compost, she talked me through the joys of drizzling pesto and supping a nice wee Chilean white.
- The sight of Ella, who a day earlier could barely find the dishwasher, up to her elbows in Fairy Liquid was worth the drive alone.
1. 1.1Deeply involved in (a task or activity)
  〈喻〉深深卷入，忙于（某任务或事业）
  we're going to get up to our elbows in the selection process
  Example sentencesExamples
  Once again, I'll be up to my elbows in it tomorrow, so I won't be able to prepare a fresh Scary Story.
  They just know the Trilateral Commission is up to their elbows in this.
  Yesterday I spent slaving away up to my elbows in a hot Unix shell.
  The new head of Housing and Urban Development essentially has spent his career up to his elbows in roads, airports, housing, urban sprawl, and other aspects of public administration.
  Roseanna sounds supportive but is up to her elbows in blood.
  They're up to their elbows in work for other reporters.
  And while most of Europe is already up to their elbows in a newly released remix album, we poor North Americans are relishing an album that's already six months out of date.
  But we're also talking about a hometown paper with the rookie Senator from New York up to her elbows in scandal taint herself.
  It's been a truly enjoyable break, working away like a team again, even if most of our time was spent up to our elbows in junk.
  They are literally up to their elbows in the science of life, and many of them have a stronger faith than most clergy.

Origin

Old English elboga, elnboga, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch elleboog and German Ellenbogen (see also ell¹, bow¹).

bow from Old English:
The bow of a ship has nothing to do with a person bowing in respect or a support bowing under pressure. The nautical bow (early 17th century) is in fact related to bough (Old English), the limb of a tree. Its immediate source, in the later Middle Ages, was German or Dutch. The phrase a shot across the bows, ‘a warning statement or gesture’, has its origins in the world of naval warfare, where it is one which is not intended to hit, but to make ships stop or alter their course. See also buxom. The archer's bow and the act of bending, both Old English, are related and come from Germanic roots. The archer's bow got its name from the shape, which also appears in Old English rainbow and elbow (Old English). The first part of the latter gives us the old measurement the ell, a variable measure, originally the distance from elbow to fingertip, which comes from the Indo-European root that also gives us ulna (mid 16th century) for the bone that runs from elbow to wrist.

Definition of elbow in US English:

elbow

nounˈelˌbōˈɛlˌboʊ

1The joint between the forearm and the upper arm.
肘
she propped herself up on one elbow
她用一只胳膊肘撑着身子。
Example sentencesExamples
- Grabbing her other arm, he pulled the sleeve up to her elbow.
- I tugged gently at the sleeves of my shirt which were cuffed almost to my elbows.
- The hem hung down to mid-thigh and the sleeves reached my elbows.
- With the knife held like a pen between his fingers, Matt slid his sleeve up to his elbow.
- Valgus stress is applied to the elbow with maximal forearm pronation.
- The dress went to the floor, and the sleeves were to her elbows.
- The sleeves ended between her elbow and her shoulder, and the overall effect was stunning.
- It revealed a soft cotton undershirt, with sleeves to his elbows.
- Now, he wears neoprene sleeves over his elbows, and he uses machines for his presses.
- I wore a cotton swimming costume reaching to my knees and with sleeves to the elbow.
- He came out of the Colts' shower area after the game wearing a large bandage on his elbow, a sleeve over his lower leg and a towel.
- It is now possible to replace almost all the joints of the body, including hips, knees, elbows, shoulders, ankles, and fingers.
- Not only does he have enough pouches to store all kinds of oats and grains, he also has a chain mail sleeve for his elbow!
- This presents with a maculopapular rash and arthralgia, typically affecting the wrist, knees, elbows, and ankles.
- He had doffed his suit jacket, undone his vest buttons, and rolled his sleeves just below his elbows.
- The elbow is a joint that serves to move the distal extremity to position the hand for fine motor activities.
- Take care not to lock out your hips, elbows or shoulder joints on this one.
- When you cough, do you cough into your hand or into your elbow on the sleeve?
- The rash usually affects the wrists, ankles, elbows, lower back or genitals, but other parts of the body can also be affected.
- His blue plaid shirt was rolled up to his elbows at the sleeves and his feet were bare as well.
Synonyms
arm joint, bend of the arm
1. 1.1 The part of the sleeve of a garment covering the elbow.
  （衣服的）肘部
  Example sentencesExamples
  On the elbows of the sleeves were silver stripes and it was the same on the knees.
  Critical zones on a gown are the cuff to the elbow, sleeve seams, and the front of the gown.
  Taking a deep breath, she rolled her sleeves up to the elbow and, wincing a little, reached all the way inside the hole.
  Under it she wore a crisp white shift whose sleeves puffed at the elbow.
  I rolled the sleeves up to the elbow and ran my hand through my hair.
  The dress puffed out below the waist, and had puffy sleeves, until the elbow, where they became skin-tight.
  The bell rang and Mr. Walker stood up and rolled up his sleeves to the elbow.
  For extra attention, select a cardigan with small pockets or leather patches on the elbows.
  He pulled up his right sleeve to the elbow and injected the drug into a visible vein.
  The girl glared back at her with dead brown eyes and grabbed onto her right coat sleeve, at the elbow.
2. 1.2 A thing resembling an elbow, in particular a piece of piping bent through an angle.
  肘状物；（管子等的）弯曲部；L形弯管
  Example sentencesExamples
  To avoid damage to the water inlet valve or other connections, grasp the elbow with a pipe wrench and apply counterpressure.
  On each occasion a kink, jerk or quirk was evident in his action that seemed to come from the straightening of a bent elbow.
  Unfortunately most gutter installers simply terminate the downspout with an elbow at the bottom.
  He supplied the elbow in two pieces for easy field installation.
  Use ridged flex aluminum or ridged four-inch elbows and straight vent pipe to vent your dryer.
  Synonyms
  bend, joint, curve, corner, angle, right angle, crook

verbˈelˌbōˈɛlˌboʊ

1Strike (someone) with one's elbow.
用肘击打（某人）
one player had elbowed another in the face
一个球员用肘部击打了另一个球员的脸部。
Example sentencesExamples
- But by 6 pm, invaders had already taken over the band, jostling, pushing and elbowing anyone in their path, forcing reluctant revelers to the sides of the road.
- She has already battled in front of me, elbowing me in the arm sharply as she went.
- They grab him, one on each arm, he elbows the person in the chest.
- Logan pushed his way through the crowd, elbowing people left and right.
- Add to that the speeding fine and a five-match ban for elbowing an opponent.
- Atkinson was attempting to push away a player who he claimed was trying to elbow him in the face.
- He elbowed the man in the face as he was struck in the side by one of the previous attackers.
- The second his back was on me, I elbowed him hard and pushed him towards the other guy, who had slowly stood up.
- I narrowed my eyes and pushed the trolley past her, making sure to elbow her as I went past.
- ‘I was physically elbowed and had my feet trodden on,’ Senator Brown said.
- ‘Oh, and look at that,’ he said, elbowing me and nodding toward a woman wearing tight ski pants.
- She had been there for one instant, and then gone again; no one around him seemed to have noticed, and the people pushed past him rudely, shoving and elbowing him on the street.
- The English player accused the Frenchman of deliberately elbowing him in the face after he was left with a broken nose.
- Miller later got himself booked and was back in the wars towards the end when Gary Smith accused him of elbowing him in the face.
- When someone elbows you a little - give him a chance to excuse himself, then smile and shrug it off.
- The policeman could be seen elbowing the prisoner twice in the shoulder area of his back during the struggle.
- But he could come under video scrutiny after elbowing another player in the head during the final quarter.
- A plucky schoolboy fought off a robber who tried to steal his sweet money by elbowing him in the stomach.
- Players are elbowing opponents and get one match ban, it is quite amazing.
- As long as no-one elbows you in the face on the last day.
Synonyms
push, push one's way, shove, shove one's way, force, force one's way, shoulder, shoulder one's way, jostle, jostle one's way, nudge, muscle, bulldoze, bludgeon one's way
1. 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move by pushing past people with one's elbows.
  用肘挤着前进，用肘推
  furiously, he elbowed his way through the crowd
  他疯狂地从拥挤的人群中挤过去。
  people elbowed past each other to the door
  人们用肘互相挤推着来到门口。
  Example sentencesExamples
  At once, there was intense jostling and elbowing.
  Which means I'm on a mission: elbowing my way past strangers, zig-zagging between cars, even occasionally breaking into a uncharacteristically moderately paced stroll.
  She elbowed past Lucas and headed straight for Theo.
  Now, I shove and elbow and do karate moves and eye gouges just to get down the hallway.
  That's where the kids who were fighting decided to get off too, pushing and elbowing their way past the other people who were trying to get off.
  She took the bowl of chips and elbowed past us to the parlor.
  She then elbowed her way past James and into the hallway, making sure to slam the door on the way out.
  Several tradesmen elbowed their way past him as they descended into one pit or another.
  An ensign elbowed past her into the elevator as she walked out onto the bridge.
  After elbowing my way past four lanes of inferior bowlers, I finally reached her.
  He elbowed his way past his brother's hands and grabbed for a sushi roll, stuffing the whole thing in his mouth.
  Grampa and Granma congratulate Tom on getting out of jail, and elbow past him to the breakfast table.
  A horde of journalists was camping outside the building, and Ann had had to push and elbow her way past them.
  On the way out, Oscar bumped into another group of guards, who gave him dark looks and elbowed past.
  My adrenaline kicked in and I abruptly elbowed my way through the crowd, past the insulting conductor, and back on the train.
  Ian elbowed past him silently and went upstairs.
  Wouldn't it be interesting if the organisation and the referees get really tough on the pulling, dragging and elbowing that passes for football.
  Again there was a delay at the barrier and all the leaving passengers had to elbow their way past us.
  Three suitors elbowed past Derick, but he was concentrating so hard on the scenery that he hardly noticed.
  More than 40 customers elbowing for bargains at a discount sale in a local supermarket last week fell down stairs where two received fatal injuries.
2Treat (a person or idea) dismissively.
his new TV talk show was elbowed aside in the ratings war
Example sentencesExamples
- The current chairman, a businessman and former police commissioner, is said to have been elbowed aside by Reilly.
- And I'm not entirely sure yet which is going to elbow the other aside.
- The nominal Health Secretary rose without trace and now been elbowed aside by the Prime Minister himself.
- It is time to elbow them aside and fill up the galleries with the rest of us.
- At some point - maybe in a year or two, after we reach 1 million users - I'll probably need to be elbowed aside.
- Clinical governance is elbowed aside as clinical priority too often takes second place to the ‘long waiter.’
- The play is set at a time when an indulgent old order was elbowed aside by brash, pragmatic modernisers, a process so widely witnessed in the past century that it has always seemed relevant.
- If it's only the former, they risk being elbowed aside by a host of other teams out there who know what they are after and why.
- If the big racecourses get their way, the smaller tracks will be elbowed aside in a rush for the extra fixtures promised.
- The fact that they have been elbowed aside by the arrival of the new company on the scene has left many bitter with the way they have been treated.
- The next election, expected in only six months time, could perhaps be as important as the one of 1923 when the old Liberal party was irreversibly elbowed aside by Labour.
- In a typical yogurt aisle, the plain yogurt is elbowed aside by a panoply of trays, tubs, and tubes in which sugar, granola, and even candy have replaced some of the yogurt.
- And I sincerely doubt that they've made a systematic and concerted effort to remedy that situation since elbowing me out of the picture.
- In the corridors of power he was seen as too close to the players, too much of a social animal and was consequently elbowed aside by the Union.
- With this kind of competition, Pressler can only hope he won't be elbowed aside.
- The community is conservative so we didn't exactly have queues, recalls a researcher who went from door to door seeking girls who had been elbowed out of the education system.
- The Keystone state produced half the global supply of petroleum until Texas elbowed it aside in 1901.
- Tall tales were woven around the 1830 Revolution, notably to the effect that the landed aristocracy had been elbowed aside by bourgeois groups.
- The classics have gradually been elbowed aside in favour of more unusual music: Villa Lobos last spring, for example, and an all - American programme just before it.
- At ground level, a bistro and book shop have been elbowed aside to create a senselessly spacious foyer, floored in black basalt.

Phrases

at one's elbow

Close at hand; nearby.
在手头；在附近
Example sentencesExamples
- Some wasted looking guy kept hanging around at my elbow.
- I had a live database of Caribbean history and culture right at my elbow, along with visiting professors.
- I talked to a Colombian film-maker who I thought of having at my elbow, but finally the producer and I decided that with all of the actors we had on board, we really did have those voices there already.
- You should, in the pecking order of these things, have both an open packet of local cigarettes and a battered classic travel book at your elbow.
- You want to find an easy chair with by a fire and have a brandy at your elbow and your feet up (along with a large circle of friends and family all gathered round in eager expectation).
- Because I think that if you're at his elbow, day in, day out, hour in, hour out, you can't expect him to be guarded all the time.
- I could feel the invisible billions at my elbow, also watching.
- And Tom started toward an edge of the group, and she followed close at his elbow, in his sandy footprints.
- With spirits whirling through his Christmas, Dickens still has one hand nudging at your elbow and another just resisting a clutch at a pretty girl's skirt.
- And pretty soon, we will end up in a circumstance, I fear, where academic researchers will find it very difficult to pursue their best and brightest ideas without a phalanx of lawyers at their elbow.

up to one's elbows in

1informal With one's hands plunged in (something)
〈非正式〉把手插入（某物）
I was up to my elbows in the cheese-potato mixture
我把手伸进了奶酪土豆泥里。
Example sentencesExamples
- Foss recounts the time she walked into the back galley to find a colleague up to her elbows in a rubbish bin, rooting through passengers' trash.
- When Dolly arrived ready for her drink I was still there, up to my elbows in steamy water, having moved only now and again to run a little more hot water in so as to keep the temperature up.
- But for now, while you are up to your elbows in sandpits and play dough, the world around you is overwhelmingly female.
- And there is a picture of a solo mother doing what most mothers do - standing up to their elbows in the sink and making sure their children are fed.
- As I sat there up to my elbows in compost, she talked me through the joys of drizzling pesto and supping a nice wee Chilean white.
- And Ewood fans will be able to grab an unusual souvenir thanks to the kind-hearted players who got up to their elbows in paint.
- Want to be up to your elbows in grease with some hunky blokes?
- We find the Dr. Hawking at work in the apartment's living room, wearing his lab coat and up to his elbows in what used to the apartment's fridge, now lying on its back and being converted into a homeostochastic chamber.
- Getting up to our elbows in textures, fabrics, metals, is just as exciting to us as a palette of colors and blank canvas was to Picasso.
- I just love the idea of all these executives up to their elbows in suds washing all the cars belonging to their staff.
- I was also up to my elbows in acrylics - we were staying with friends who have a built in cupboard in the dining room with a rounded head: there is thus a more or less semicircular top to the thing.
- The sight of Ella, who a day earlier could barely find the dishwasher, up to her elbows in Fairy Liquid was worth the drive alone.
1. 1.1Deeply involved in (a task or undertaking).
  〈喻〉深深卷入，忙于（某任务或事业）
  Example sentencesExamples
  But we're also talking about a hometown paper with the rookie Senator from New York up to her elbows in scandal taint herself.
  And while most of Europe is already up to their elbows in a newly released remix album, we poor North Americans are relishing an album that's already six months out of date.
  Roseanna sounds supportive but is up to her elbows in blood.
  They are literally up to their elbows in the science of life, and many of them have a stronger faith than most clergy.
  Once again, I'll be up to my elbows in it tomorrow, so I won't be able to prepare a fresh Scary Story.
  It's been a truly enjoyable break, working away like a team again, even if most of our time was spent up to our elbows in junk.
  They're up to their elbows in work for other reporters.
  Yesterday I spent slaving away up to my elbows in a hot Unix shell.
  They just know the Trilateral Commission is up to their elbows in this.
  The new head of Housing and Urban Development essentially has spent his career up to his elbows in roads, airports, housing, urban sprawl, and other aspects of public administration.

Origin

Old English elboga, elnboga, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch elleboog and German Ellenbogen (see also ell, bow).

单词	elbow
释义	Definition of elbow in English: elbow noun ˈɛlbəʊˈɛlˌboʊ 1The joint between the forearm and the upper arm. 肘 she propped herself up on one elbow 她用一只胳膊肘撑着身子。 Example sentencesExamples When you cough, do you cough into your hand or into your elbow on the sleeve? Now, he wears neoprene sleeves over his elbows, and he uses machines for his presses. The sleeves ended between her elbow and her shoulder, and the overall effect was stunning. The rash usually affects the wrists, ankles, elbows, lower back or genitals, but other parts of the body can also be affected. Not only does he have enough pouches to store all kinds of oats and grains, he also has a chain mail sleeve for his elbow! The dress went to the floor, and the sleeves were to her elbows. Take care not to lock out your hips, elbows or shoulder joints on this one. I tugged gently at the sleeves of my shirt which were cuffed almost to my elbows. Valgus stress is applied to the elbow with maximal forearm pronation. With the knife held like a pen between his fingers, Matt slid his sleeve up to his elbow. Grabbing her other arm, he pulled the sleeve up to her elbow. His blue plaid shirt was rolled up to his elbows at the sleeves and his feet were bare as well. This presents with a maculopapular rash and arthralgia, typically affecting the wrist, knees, elbows, and ankles. The hem hung down to mid-thigh and the sleeves reached my elbows. He came out of the Colts' shower area after the game wearing a large bandage on his elbow, a sleeve over his lower leg and a towel. It is now possible to replace almost all the joints of the body, including hips, knees, elbows, shoulders, ankles, and fingers. I wore a cotton swimming costume reaching to my knees and with sleeves to the elbow. The elbow is a joint that serves to move the distal extremity to position the hand for fine motor activities. He had doffed his suit jacket, undone his vest buttons, and rolled his sleeves just below his elbows. It revealed a soft cotton undershirt, with sleeves to his elbows. Synonyms arm joint, bend of the arm 1.1 The part of the sleeve of a garment covering the elbow. （衣服的）肘部 I darned the elbows of my corduroy jacket Example sentencesExamples The dress puffed out below the waist, and had puffy sleeves, until the elbow, where they became skin-tight. On the elbows of the sleeves were silver stripes and it was the same on the knees. The girl glared back at her with dead brown eyes and grabbed onto her right coat sleeve, at the elbow. Under it she wore a crisp white shift whose sleeves puffed at the elbow. Taking a deep breath, she rolled her sleeves up to the elbow and, wincing a little, reached all the way inside the hole. He pulled up his right sleeve to the elbow and injected the drug into a visible vein. Critical zones on a gown are the cuff to the elbow, sleeve seams, and the front of the gown. I rolled the sleeves up to the elbow and ran my hand through my hair. The bell rang and Mr. Walker stood up and rolled up his sleeves to the elbow. For extra attention, select a cardigan with small pockets or leather patches on the elbows. 1.2 A thing resembling an elbow, in particular a piece of piping bent through an angle. 肘状物；（管子等的）弯曲部；L形弯管 a cross-fitting with elbows and straight pipework Example sentencesExamples Unfortunately most gutter installers simply terminate the downspout with an elbow at the bottom. To avoid damage to the water inlet valve or other connections, grasp the elbow with a pipe wrench and apply counterpressure. On each occasion a kink, jerk or quirk was evident in his action that seemed to come from the straightening of a bent elbow. Use ridged flex aluminum or ridged four-inch elbows and straight vent pipe to vent your dryer. He supplied the elbow in two pieces for easy field installation. Synonyms bend, joint, curve, corner, (right) angle, crook technical flexure verb ˈɛlbəʊˈɛlˌboʊ 1with object and adverbial Push or strike (someone) with one's elbow. 用肘击打（某人） one player had elbowed another in the face 一个球员用肘部击打了另一个球员的脸部。 Example sentencesExamples I narrowed my eyes and pushed the trolley past her, making sure to elbow her as I went past. The English player accused the Frenchman of deliberately elbowing him in the face after he was left with a broken nose. He elbowed the man in the face as he was struck in the side by one of the previous attackers. ‘Oh, and look at that,’ he said, elbowing me and nodding toward a woman wearing tight ski pants. She has already battled in front of me, elbowing me in the arm sharply as she went. But by 6 pm, invaders had already taken over the band, jostling, pushing and elbowing anyone in their path, forcing reluctant revelers to the sides of the road. She had been there for one instant, and then gone again; no one around him seemed to have noticed, and the people pushed past him rudely, shoving and elbowing him on the street. Add to that the speeding fine and a five-match ban for elbowing an opponent. The second his back was on me, I elbowed him hard and pushed him towards the other guy, who had slowly stood up. Logan pushed his way through the crowd, elbowing people left and right. A plucky schoolboy fought off a robber who tried to steal his sweet money by elbowing him in the stomach. They grab him, one on each arm, he elbows the person in the chest. When someone elbows you a little - give him a chance to excuse himself, then smile and shrug it off. Miller later got himself booked and was back in the wars towards the end when Gary Smith accused him of elbowing him in the face. But he could come under video scrutiny after elbowing another player in the head during the final quarter. As long as no-one elbows you in the face on the last day. ‘I was physically elbowed and had my feet trodden on,’ Senator Brown said. Players are elbowing opponents and get one match ban, it is quite amazing. Atkinson was attempting to push away a player who he claimed was trying to elbow him in the face. The policeman could be seen elbowing the prisoner twice in the shoulder area of his back during the struggle. Synonyms push (one's way), shove (one's way), force (one's way), shoulder (one's way), jostle (one's way), nudge, muscle, bulldoze, bludgeon one's way 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move by pushing past people with one's elbows. 用肘挤着前进，用肘推 he elbowed his way through the crush 他疯狂地从拥挤的人群中挤过去。 Example sentencesExamples Which means I'm on a mission: elbowing my way past strangers, zig-zagging between cars, even occasionally breaking into a uncharacteristically moderately paced stroll. That's where the kids who were fighting decided to get off too, pushing and elbowing their way past the other people who were trying to get off. Now, I shove and elbow and do karate moves and eye gouges just to get down the hallway. Ian elbowed past him silently and went upstairs. Again there was a delay at the barrier and all the leaving passengers had to elbow their way past us. My adrenaline kicked in and I abruptly elbowed my way through the crowd, past the insulting conductor, and back on the train. Three suitors elbowed past Derick, but he was concentrating so hard on the scenery that he hardly noticed. She took the bowl of chips and elbowed past us to the parlor. A horde of journalists was camping outside the building, and Ann had had to push and elbow her way past them. She then elbowed her way past James and into the hallway, making sure to slam the door on the way out. After elbowing my way past four lanes of inferior bowlers, I finally reached her. She elbowed past Lucas and headed straight for Theo. He elbowed his way past his brother's hands and grabbed for a sushi roll, stuffing the whole thing in his mouth. Wouldn't it be interesting if the organisation and the referees get really tough on the pulling, dragging and elbowing that passes for football. An ensign elbowed past her into the elevator as she walked out onto the bridge. Several tradesmen elbowed their way past him as they descended into one pit or another. At once, there was intense jostling and elbowing. More than 40 customers elbowing for bargains at a discount sale in a local supermarket last week fell down stairs where two received fatal injuries. Grampa and Granma congratulate Tom on getting out of jail, and elbow past him to the breakfast table. On the way out, Oscar bumped into another group of guards, who gave him dark looks and elbowed past. 2with object and adverbial Treat (a person or idea) dismissively. the issues which concerned them tended to be elbowed aside by men 有关他们的问题往往被男人们丢在一旁。 Example sentencesExamples At ground level, a bistro and book shop have been elbowed aside to create a senselessly spacious foyer, floored in black basalt. If the big racecourses get their way, the smaller tracks will be elbowed aside in a rush for the extra fixtures promised. With this kind of competition, Pressler can only hope he won't be elbowed aside. The play is set at a time when an indulgent old order was elbowed aside by brash, pragmatic modernisers, a process so widely witnessed in the past century that it has always seemed relevant. It is time to elbow them aside and fill up the galleries with the rest of us. The Keystone state produced half the global supply of petroleum until Texas elbowed it aside in 1901. In a typical yogurt aisle, the plain yogurt is elbowed aside by a panoply of trays, tubs, and tubes in which sugar, granola, and even candy have replaced some of the yogurt. The current chairman, a businessman and former police commissioner, is said to have been elbowed aside by Reilly. The community is conservative so we didn't exactly have queues, recalls a researcher who went from door to door seeking girls who had been elbowed out of the education system. At some point - maybe in a year or two, after we reach 1 million users - I'll probably need to be elbowed aside. In the corridors of power he was seen as too close to the players, too much of a social animal and was consequently elbowed aside by the Union. Clinical governance is elbowed aside as clinical priority too often takes second place to the ‘long waiter.’ If it's only the former, they risk being elbowed aside by a host of other teams out there who know what they are after and why. And I sincerely doubt that they've made a systematic and concerted effort to remedy that situation since elbowing me out of the picture. The classics have gradually been elbowed aside in favour of more unusual music: Villa Lobos last spring, for example, and an all - American programme just before it. The fact that they have been elbowed aside by the arrival of the new company on the scene has left many bitter with the way they have been treated. The next election, expected in only six months time, could perhaps be as important as the one of 1923 when the old Liberal party was irreversibly elbowed aside by Labour. The nominal Health Secretary rose without trace and now been elbowed aside by the Prime Minister himself. And I'm not entirely sure yet which is going to elbow the other aside. Tall tales were woven around the 1830 Revolution, notably to the effect that the landed aristocracy had been elbowed aside by bourgeois groups. Phrases at one's elbow Close at hand; nearby. 在手头；在附近 he was standing at her elbow, holding out her glass Example sentencesExamples Because I think that if you're at his elbow, day in, day out, hour in, hour out, you can't expect him to be guarded all the time. You want to find an easy chair with by a fire and have a brandy at your elbow and your feet up (along with a large circle of friends and family all gathered round in eager expectation). With spirits whirling through his Christmas, Dickens still has one hand nudging at your elbow and another just resisting a clutch at a pretty girl's skirt. Some wasted looking guy kept hanging around at my elbow. I could feel the invisible billions at my elbow, also watching. I had a live database of Caribbean history and culture right at my elbow, along with visiting professors. You should, in the pecking order of these things, have both an open packet of local cigarettes and a battered classic travel book at your elbow. And pretty soon, we will end up in a circumstance, I fear, where academic researchers will find it very difficult to pursue their best and brightest ideas without a phalanx of lawyers at their elbow. I talked to a Colombian film-maker who I thought of having at my elbow, but finally the producer and I decided that with all of the actors we had on board, we really did have those voices there already. And Tom started toward an edge of the group, and she followed close at his elbow, in his sandy footprints. give someone the elbow 用肘击打（某人） informal Reject or dismiss someone. I tried to get her to give him the elbow 我试图让她抛弃他。 she decided to give tradition the elbow 〈喻〉她决定抛开传统。 Example sentencesExamples I have been married for 17 years, and I am not planning to give him the elbow. But there's a few loyal sons eager to give her the elbow. This reviewer gives the all inclusive buffet the elbow. You should give pain the elbow. He had turned bitter when she gave him the elbow for another man, and bombarded her with silent phone calls until police warned him off. Synonyms dismiss, axe, give someone notice, make redundant, throw out, get rid of, lay off, let go, discharge up to one's elbows in 1informal With one's hands plunged in (something) 〈非正式〉把手插入（某物） I was up to my elbows in the cheese-potato mixture 我把手伸进了奶酪土豆泥里。 Example sentencesExamples When Dolly arrived ready for her drink I was still there, up to my elbows in steamy water, having moved only now and again to run a little more hot water in so as to keep the temperature up. Want to be up to your elbows in grease with some hunky blokes? We find the Dr. Hawking at work in the apartment's living room, wearing his lab coat and up to his elbows in what used to the apartment's fridge, now lying on its back and being converted into a homeostochastic chamber. And there is a picture of a solo mother doing what most mothers do - standing up to their elbows in the sink and making sure their children are fed. But for now, while you are up to your elbows in sandpits and play dough, the world around you is overwhelmingly female. And Ewood fans will be able to grab an unusual souvenir thanks to the kind-hearted players who got up to their elbows in paint. I just love the idea of all these executives up to their elbows in suds washing all the cars belonging to their staff. Foss recounts the time she walked into the back galley to find a colleague up to her elbows in a rubbish bin, rooting through passengers' trash. I was also up to my elbows in acrylics - we were staying with friends who have a built in cupboard in the dining room with a rounded head: there is thus a more or less semicircular top to the thing. Getting up to our elbows in textures, fabrics, metals, is just as exciting to us as a palette of colors and blank canvas was to Picasso. As I sat there up to my elbows in compost, she talked me through the joys of drizzling pesto and supping a nice wee Chilean white. The sight of Ella, who a day earlier could barely find the dishwasher, up to her elbows in Fairy Liquid was worth the drive alone. 1.1Deeply involved in (a task or activity) 〈喻〉深深卷入，忙于（某任务或事业） we're going to get up to our elbows in the selection process Example sentencesExamples Once again, I'll be up to my elbows in it tomorrow, so I won't be able to prepare a fresh Scary Story. They just know the Trilateral Commission is up to their elbows in this. Yesterday I spent slaving away up to my elbows in a hot Unix shell. The new head of Housing and Urban Development essentially has spent his career up to his elbows in roads, airports, housing, urban sprawl, and other aspects of public administration. Roseanna sounds supportive but is up to her elbows in blood. They're up to their elbows in work for other reporters. And while most of Europe is already up to their elbows in a newly released remix album, we poor North Americans are relishing an album that's already six months out of date. But we're also talking about a hometown paper with the rookie Senator from New York up to her elbows in scandal taint herself. It's been a truly enjoyable break, working away like a team again, even if most of our time was spent up to our elbows in junk. They are literally up to their elbows in the science of life, and many of them have a stronger faith than most clergy. Origin Old English elboga, elnboga, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch elleboog and German Ellenbogen (see also ell¹, bow¹). bow from Old English: The bow of a ship has nothing to do with a person bowing in respect or a support bowing under pressure. The nautical bow (early 17th century) is in fact related to bough (Old English), the limb of a tree. Its immediate source, in the later Middle Ages, was German or Dutch. The phrase a shot across the bows, ‘a warning statement or gesture’, has its origins in the world of naval warfare, where it is one which is not intended to hit, but to make ships stop or alter their course. See also buxom. The archer's bow and the act of bending, both Old English, are related and come from Germanic roots. The archer's bow got its name from the shape, which also appears in Old English rainbow and elbow (Old English). The first part of the latter gives us the old measurement the ell, a variable measure, originally the distance from elbow to fingertip, which comes from the Indo-European root that also gives us ulna (mid 16th century) for the bone that runs from elbow to wrist. noun.1 phr. Definition of elbow in US English: elbow nounˈelˌbōˈɛlˌboʊ 1The joint between the forearm and the upper arm. 肘 she propped herself up on one elbow 她用一只胳膊肘撑着身子。 Example sentencesExamples Grabbing her other arm, he pulled the sleeve up to her elbow. I tugged gently at the sleeves of my shirt which were cuffed almost to my elbows. The hem hung down to mid-thigh and the sleeves reached my elbows. With the knife held like a pen between his fingers, Matt slid his sleeve up to his elbow. Valgus stress is applied to the elbow with maximal forearm pronation. The dress went to the floor, and the sleeves were to her elbows. The sleeves ended between her elbow and her shoulder, and the overall effect was stunning. It revealed a soft cotton undershirt, with sleeves to his elbows. Now, he wears neoprene sleeves over his elbows, and he uses machines for his presses. I wore a cotton swimming costume reaching to my knees and with sleeves to the elbow. He came out of the Colts' shower area after the game wearing a large bandage on his elbow, a sleeve over his lower leg and a towel. It is now possible to replace almost all the joints of the body, including hips, knees, elbows, shoulders, ankles, and fingers. Not only does he have enough pouches to store all kinds of oats and grains, he also has a chain mail sleeve for his elbow! This presents with a maculopapular rash and arthralgia, typically affecting the wrist, knees, elbows, and ankles. He had doffed his suit jacket, undone his vest buttons, and rolled his sleeves just below his elbows. The elbow is a joint that serves to move the distal extremity to position the hand for fine motor activities. Take care not to lock out your hips, elbows or shoulder joints on this one. When you cough, do you cough into your hand or into your elbow on the sleeve? The rash usually affects the wrists, ankles, elbows, lower back or genitals, but other parts of the body can also be affected. His blue plaid shirt was rolled up to his elbows at the sleeves and his feet were bare as well. Synonyms arm joint, bend of the arm 1.1 The part of the sleeve of a garment covering the elbow. （衣服的）肘部 Example sentencesExamples On the elbows of the sleeves were silver stripes and it was the same on the knees. Critical zones on a gown are the cuff to the elbow, sleeve seams, and the front of the gown. Taking a deep breath, she rolled her sleeves up to the elbow and, wincing a little, reached all the way inside the hole. Under it she wore a crisp white shift whose sleeves puffed at the elbow. I rolled the sleeves up to the elbow and ran my hand through my hair. The dress puffed out below the waist, and had puffy sleeves, until the elbow, where they became skin-tight. The bell rang and Mr. Walker stood up and rolled up his sleeves to the elbow. For extra attention, select a cardigan with small pockets or leather patches on the elbows. He pulled up his right sleeve to the elbow and injected the drug into a visible vein. The girl glared back at her with dead brown eyes and grabbed onto her right coat sleeve, at the elbow. 1.2 A thing resembling an elbow, in particular a piece of piping bent through an angle. 肘状物；（管子等的）弯曲部；L形弯管 Example sentencesExamples To avoid damage to the water inlet valve or other connections, grasp the elbow with a pipe wrench and apply counterpressure. On each occasion a kink, jerk or quirk was evident in his action that seemed to come from the straightening of a bent elbow. Unfortunately most gutter installers simply terminate the downspout with an elbow at the bottom. He supplied the elbow in two pieces for easy field installation. Use ridged flex aluminum or ridged four-inch elbows and straight vent pipe to vent your dryer. Synonyms bend, joint, curve, corner, angle, right angle, crook verbˈelˌbōˈɛlˌboʊ 1Strike (someone) with one's elbow. 用肘击打（某人） one player had elbowed another in the face 一个球员用肘部击打了另一个球员的脸部。 Example sentencesExamples But by 6 pm, invaders had already taken over the band, jostling, pushing and elbowing anyone in their path, forcing reluctant revelers to the sides of the road. She has already battled in front of me, elbowing me in the arm sharply as she went. They grab him, one on each arm, he elbows the person in the chest. Logan pushed his way through the crowd, elbowing people left and right. Add to that the speeding fine and a five-match ban for elbowing an opponent. Atkinson was attempting to push away a player who he claimed was trying to elbow him in the face. He elbowed the man in the face as he was struck in the side by one of the previous attackers. The second his back was on me, I elbowed him hard and pushed him towards the other guy, who had slowly stood up. I narrowed my eyes and pushed the trolley past her, making sure to elbow her as I went past. ‘I was physically elbowed and had my feet trodden on,’ Senator Brown said. ‘Oh, and look at that,’ he said, elbowing me and nodding toward a woman wearing tight ski pants. She had been there for one instant, and then gone again; no one around him seemed to have noticed, and the people pushed past him rudely, shoving and elbowing him on the street. The English player accused the Frenchman of deliberately elbowing him in the face after he was left with a broken nose. Miller later got himself booked and was back in the wars towards the end when Gary Smith accused him of elbowing him in the face. When someone elbows you a little - give him a chance to excuse himself, then smile and shrug it off. The policeman could be seen elbowing the prisoner twice in the shoulder area of his back during the struggle. But he could come under video scrutiny after elbowing another player in the head during the final quarter. A plucky schoolboy fought off a robber who tried to steal his sweet money by elbowing him in the stomach. Players are elbowing opponents and get one match ban, it is quite amazing. As long as no-one elbows you in the face on the last day. Synonyms push, push one's way, shove, shove one's way, force, force one's way, shoulder, shoulder one's way, jostle, jostle one's way, nudge, muscle, bulldoze, bludgeon one's way 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move by pushing past people with one's elbows. 用肘挤着前进，用肘推 furiously, he elbowed his way through the crowd 他疯狂地从拥挤的人群中挤过去。 people elbowed past each other to the door 人们用肘互相挤推着来到门口。 Example sentencesExamples At once, there was intense jostling and elbowing. Which means I'm on a mission: elbowing my way past strangers, zig-zagging between cars, even occasionally breaking into a uncharacteristically moderately paced stroll. She elbowed past Lucas and headed straight for Theo. Now, I shove and elbow and do karate moves and eye gouges just to get down the hallway. That's where the kids who were fighting decided to get off too, pushing and elbowing their way past the other people who were trying to get off. She took the bowl of chips and elbowed past us to the parlor. She then elbowed her way past James and into the hallway, making sure to slam the door on the way out. Several tradesmen elbowed their way past him as they descended into one pit or another. An ensign elbowed past her into the elevator as she walked out onto the bridge. After elbowing my way past four lanes of inferior bowlers, I finally reached her. He elbowed his way past his brother's hands and grabbed for a sushi roll, stuffing the whole thing in his mouth. Grampa and Granma congratulate Tom on getting out of jail, and elbow past him to the breakfast table. A horde of journalists was camping outside the building, and Ann had had to push and elbow her way past them. On the way out, Oscar bumped into another group of guards, who gave him dark looks and elbowed past. My adrenaline kicked in and I abruptly elbowed my way through the crowd, past the insulting conductor, and back on the train. Ian elbowed past him silently and went upstairs. Wouldn't it be interesting if the organisation and the referees get really tough on the pulling, dragging and elbowing that passes for football. Again there was a delay at the barrier and all the leaving passengers had to elbow their way past us. Three suitors elbowed past Derick, but he was concentrating so hard on the scenery that he hardly noticed. More than 40 customers elbowing for bargains at a discount sale in a local supermarket last week fell down stairs where two received fatal injuries. 2Treat (a person or idea) dismissively. his new TV talk show was elbowed aside in the ratings war Example sentencesExamples The current chairman, a businessman and former police commissioner, is said to have been elbowed aside by Reilly. And I'm not entirely sure yet which is going to elbow the other aside. The nominal Health Secretary rose without trace and now been elbowed aside by the Prime Minister himself. It is time to elbow them aside and fill up the galleries with the rest of us. At some point - maybe in a year or two, after we reach 1 million users - I'll probably need to be elbowed aside. Clinical governance is elbowed aside as clinical priority too often takes second place to the ‘long waiter.’ The play is set at a time when an indulgent old order was elbowed aside by brash, pragmatic modernisers, a process so widely witnessed in the past century that it has always seemed relevant. If it's only the former, they risk being elbowed aside by a host of other teams out there who know what they are after and why. If the big racecourses get their way, the smaller tracks will be elbowed aside in a rush for the extra fixtures promised. The fact that they have been elbowed aside by the arrival of the new company on the scene has left many bitter with the way they have been treated. The next election, expected in only six months time, could perhaps be as important as the one of 1923 when the old Liberal party was irreversibly elbowed aside by Labour. In a typical yogurt aisle, the plain yogurt is elbowed aside by a panoply of trays, tubs, and tubes in which sugar, granola, and even candy have replaced some of the yogurt. And I sincerely doubt that they've made a systematic and concerted effort to remedy that situation since elbowing me out of the picture. In the corridors of power he was seen as too close to the players, too much of a social animal and was consequently elbowed aside by the Union. With this kind of competition, Pressler can only hope he won't be elbowed aside. The community is conservative so we didn't exactly have queues, recalls a researcher who went from door to door seeking girls who had been elbowed out of the education system. The Keystone state produced half the global supply of petroleum until Texas elbowed it aside in 1901. Tall tales were woven around the 1830 Revolution, notably to the effect that the landed aristocracy had been elbowed aside by bourgeois groups. The classics have gradually been elbowed aside in favour of more unusual music: Villa Lobos last spring, for example, and an all - American programme just before it. At ground level, a bistro and book shop have been elbowed aside to create a senselessly spacious foyer, floored in black basalt. Phrases at one's elbow Close at hand; nearby. 在手头；在附近 Example sentencesExamples Some wasted looking guy kept hanging around at my elbow. I had a live database of Caribbean history and culture right at my elbow, along with visiting professors. I talked to a Colombian film-maker who I thought of having at my elbow, but finally the producer and I decided that with all of the actors we had on board, we really did have those voices there already. You should, in the pecking order of these things, have both an open packet of local cigarettes and a battered classic travel book at your elbow. You want to find an easy chair with by a fire and have a brandy at your elbow and your feet up (along with a large circle of friends and family all gathered round in eager expectation). Because I think that if you're at his elbow, day in, day out, hour in, hour out, you can't expect him to be guarded all the time. I could feel the invisible billions at my elbow, also watching. And Tom started toward an edge of the group, and she followed close at his elbow, in his sandy footprints. With spirits whirling through his Christmas, Dickens still has one hand nudging at your elbow and another just resisting a clutch at a pretty girl's skirt. And pretty soon, we will end up in a circumstance, I fear, where academic researchers will find it very difficult to pursue their best and brightest ideas without a phalanx of lawyers at their elbow. up to one's elbows in 1informal With one's hands plunged in (something) 〈非正式〉把手插入（某物） I was up to my elbows in the cheese-potato mixture 我把手伸进了奶酪土豆泥里。 Example sentencesExamples Foss recounts the time she walked into the back galley to find a colleague up to her elbows in a rubbish bin, rooting through passengers' trash. When Dolly arrived ready for her drink I was still there, up to my elbows in steamy water, having moved only now and again to run a little more hot water in so as to keep the temperature up. But for now, while you are up to your elbows in sandpits and play dough, the world around you is overwhelmingly female. And there is a picture of a solo mother doing what most mothers do - standing up to their elbows in the sink and making sure their children are fed. As I sat there up to my elbows in compost, she talked me through the joys of drizzling pesto and supping a nice wee Chilean white. And Ewood fans will be able to grab an unusual souvenir thanks to the kind-hearted players who got up to their elbows in paint. Want to be up to your elbows in grease with some hunky blokes? We find the Dr. Hawking at work in the apartment's living room, wearing his lab coat and up to his elbows in what used to the apartment's fridge, now lying on its back and being converted into a homeostochastic chamber. Getting up to our elbows in textures, fabrics, metals, is just as exciting to us as a palette of colors and blank canvas was to Picasso. I just love the idea of all these executives up to their elbows in suds washing all the cars belonging to their staff. I was also up to my elbows in acrylics - we were staying with friends who have a built in cupboard in the dining room with a rounded head: there is thus a more or less semicircular top to the thing. The sight of Ella, who a day earlier could barely find the dishwasher, up to her elbows in Fairy Liquid was worth the drive alone. 1.1Deeply involved in (a task or undertaking). 〈喻〉深深卷入，忙于（某任务或事业） Example sentencesExamples But we're also talking about a hometown paper with the rookie Senator from New York up to her elbows in scandal taint herself. And while most of Europe is already up to their elbows in a newly released remix album, we poor North Americans are relishing an album that's already six months out of date. Roseanna sounds supportive but is up to her elbows in blood. They are literally up to their elbows in the science of life, and many of them have a stronger faith than most clergy. Once again, I'll be up to my elbows in it tomorrow, so I won't be able to prepare a fresh Scary Story. It's been a truly enjoyable break, working away like a team again, even if most of our time was spent up to our elbows in junk. They're up to their elbows in work for other reporters. Yesterday I spent slaving away up to my elbows in a hot Unix shell. They just know the Trilateral Commission is up to their elbows in this. The new head of Housing and Urban Development essentially has spent his career up to his elbows in roads, airports, housing, urban sprawl, and other aspects of public administration. Origin Old English elboga, elnboga, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch elleboog and German Ellenbogen (see also ell, bow). noun.1 phr.
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