单词 | sitter-on-the-fence |
释义 | > as lemmassitter-on-the-fence sitter-on-the-fence n. [after to sit on the fence at fence n. 5c] a person who is undecided or neutral with regard to an issue, decision, etc.; = fence-sitter n. at fence n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1861 M. D. Conway Rejected Stone 92 There is really no cause for apprehending any evil from these sitters on the fence. 1880 Rose-Belford's Canad. Monthly Aug. 201/1 The ‘independents’ have the rather shady reputation of being waiters on Providence or sitters on the fence. 1927 A. D. Gristwood Coward vi, in Somme & Coward 146 The doubter, the Agnostic, the sitter on the fence, is doubly damned in the hurly-burly. 1996 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Sept. 28/2 Delighting in her own vacillations, she was the ultimate sitter-on-the-fence. < as lemmas |
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