What does meter baza mean?

ExpressionNeutro

to get a word in

It comes from cards: una baza is a trick won in a hand. Meter baza is managing to say something while somebody else is monopolising the conversation. It nearly always turns up in complaints, because you use it when you could not.

No había manera de meter baza, no paró de hablar.
The complaint of everybody at that end of the table.

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