164 Elbow room
(PW) enough space to be comfortable
It was so tight in that restaurant. There wasn’t any elbow room.
(free) space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around"
His speech was designed to give himself more political elbow room.
(your) noun
room enough to move or work in; ample space or scope
(encyclopedia) n. inf. adequate space to move or work in
the car has elbow room for four adults
fig. Quebec wants more elbow room within the federation.
(lexicology) (n) space for movement
On the outside, the patient's stomach is smeared in yellowy iodine and puffed out from the CO2 pumped in to provide some elbow room.
Though McGinnis does not have much elbow room on the board of directors, he does not need much.
