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Elbowroom   Listen
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Elbowroom  n.  Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope. "My soul hath elbowroom." "Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Elbowroom" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jewish task became a double one: the Jews in every country, while participating to the full in the life of their environment—for the return to the Ghetto was neither desirable nor possible—had to endeavor to secure a maximum of elbowroom for the development of their own section of Jewry, while as part of universal Israel they had to keep up their contact with the Jews throughout the world and labor with them for the realization of the common Jewish hope, that of a spiritual center in the historic land ...
— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various



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