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elbow room

n. 1 (context idiomatic English) Room or space in which to move or maneuver. 2 (context idiomatic English) Freedom or leeway.

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elbow room

n. space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: room, way]

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Elbow Room (book)

Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting is a 1984 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, in which Dennett discusses the philosophical issues of free will and determinism.

In 1983, Dennett delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford on the topic of free will. In 1984, these ideas were published in the book Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting. In this book Daniel Dennett explored what it means for people to have free will. The title, Elbow Room, is a reference to the question: are we deterministic machines with no real freedom of action or do we in fact have some elbow room, some real choice in our behavior?

Elbow Room (short story collection)

Elbow Room: Stories is a 1977 short story collection by American author James Alan McPherson. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1978.

Elbow Room

Elbow Room may refer to:

  • Elbow Room (book), a 1984 book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett
  • Elbow Room (short story collection), a 1977 short story collection by American author James Alan McPherson
  • "Elbow Room", one of the shorts from the Schoolhouse Rock! series of animated musical shorts
  • The Elbow Room, a traditional nightclub in the Aston area of Birmingham, England

Usage examples of "elbow room".

The CSF team project would be given the elbow room it needed, without interference.

The ground would feel good for a change, and it'd be nice to have more elbow room than there was in the fighting compartment.

The American had imagined that the long-range British bomber would be as big as an airliner, with a control cabin offering ample elbow room.

I have only the knowledge that someday I will and that I want them in a land where they may have elbow room.

It was more to get him out of the way and give myself some elbow room for undisturbed thinking, than anything else, that I said: ``Sam, what's the street address of that building down there?

Fighting for elbow room, struggling to keep his feet, he was borne into the temple complex.