sit on the fence
Example Sentences
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“They need to be condemned and there’s no place to sit on the fence here: You’re either condemning it or you’re condoning it.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2023
"We must no longer sit on the fence," Edelstein tweeted after he and an Israeli opposition lawmaker, Zeev Elkin, met Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv.
From Reuters • Feb. 21, 2023
Ukraine was “trying to sit on the fence and avoid any sensitive issues with Beijing, and expected the same from China,” he said.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2022
The match itself may also sit on the fence.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2020
We went to bed, supposing that the coal would eventually burn out, but about 12 o’clock the whole family had to get up and sit on the fence.
From Peck's Compendium of Fun by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
