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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