SIT ON THE FENCE

If you sit on the fence, you avoid making a decision or committing to a particular viewpoint.

 Examples of use:

 “The easiest thing for academic economists to do is sit on the fence”

 “Unless it wished to antagonise a large slice of its audience, it had little choice but to sit on the fence.”

 “What they don’t do is sit on the fence waiting until they are 100% sure they can’t mess up.”


 In this phrase, the two sides of the fence represent opposing viewpoints or choices [1].


 [1] “fence” in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by Knowles, Elizabeth. Oxford University Press, 2005. 

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