the jury is (still) out
C2 If the jury is (still) out on a subject, people do not yet know the answer or have not yet decided if it is good or bad:
The jury's still out on the safety of irradiated food.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Doubt & ambivalence
- ambivalent
- askance
- be in two minds idiom
- blow hot and cold idiom
- chary
- hem
- hem and haw idiom
- hum
- hum and haw idiom
- indecision
- indecisive
- jury
- shades of grey idiom
- shilly-shally
- sit on the fence idiom
- straddle
- tentative
- unclear
- wobble
- wobbly
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