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单词 to elbow off, out of
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to elbow off, out of (anything)
2. To thrust aside with the elbow; also, to elbow off, out of (anything). Chiefly figurative.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push > aside
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1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 484. ⁋5 It is ever want of breeding..to be..elbow'd out of his honest ambition.
1712 J. Arbuthnot App. to John Bull Still in Senses i. 6 He us'd to..elbow his Fellow-Servants to get near his Mistress.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 485 They would elbow our own Aldermen off the Royal Exchange.
1884 Manch. Examiner 13 Nov. 5/2 The small farming class have been gradually elbowed out of their holdings.
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