straddle the fence

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straddle the fence

Fig. to support both sides of an issue. (As if one were partly on either side of a fence.) The mayor is straddling the fence on this issue, hoping the public will forget it. The legislator wanted to straddle the fence until the last minute, and that alone cost her a lot of votes.

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Personally, in spite of my leanings toward function, I''m going to depart from my usual sensibilities; straddle the fence and say, it depends. Choosing What's Good with Modern Furnitrue by Jron Magcale / Home improvement and landscaping community Jeffries, who has been known to straddle the fence on the Atlantic Yards project, didn't say whether he was for or against it. Brooklyn Politicos Call for Trust to Oversee Atlantic Yards by Bharat Ayyar / The New York Observer Chances are, a few members from both camps see both sides of the issue and, therefore, straddle the fence. The Big Apple versus diabetes by Blair, Robin / Health Management Technology			stop on a dime stop one dead in tracks stop over stop short stop short of stop short of a place stop short of doing stop the music stop the rot stop up stop, look, and listen storage store store away store in store up stork storm storm around storm at storm in storm is brewing storm out story stow away straddle the fence straight straight as an arrow straight dope straight face straight from the shoulder straight low straight man straight out straight shooter straight talk straight up straightaway straighten straighten out straighten up straighten up and fly right strain strain after strain at gnats and swallow camels strain at the leash strain away strain every nerve strain for an effect strain off of strain through			Strachey, Christopher Strachey, John Strachey, Lytton Strachey, Lytton Strachey, William STRACNET STRACOM STRACOS Strad Strad Strada Strada Provinciale Stradavarius Stradavarius Stradbroke Island Management Organisation straddle straddle straddle straddle straddle straddle Straddle carrier straddle injury straddle injury straddle injury straddle injury straddle lesion straddle milling straddle pole straddle scaffold straddle the fence straddle truck straddled straddled straddled straddled straddled straddler straddler straddler straddler straddler straddlers straddlers straddlers straddlers straddlers straddles straddles straddles straddles straddles straddling straddling straddling straddling straddling straddling embolism Strade Ferrate Secondarie Meridionali Stradella, Alessandro Stradiot

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