sit on the fence
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“They need to be condemned and there’s no place to sit on the fence here: You’re either condemning it or you’re condoning it.”
From Washington Times • Oct. 30, 2023
"We must no longer sit on the fence," Edelstein tweeted after he and an Israeli opposition lawmaker, Zeev Elkin, met Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv.
From Reuters • Feb. 21, 2023
This is a hard one to predict, so I am going to sit on the fence - I know Ali will do exactly the same too.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2022
Ukraine was “trying to sit on the fence and avoid any sensitive issues with Beijing, and expected the same from China,” he said.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2022
They would sit on the fence and make sly jokes about digging for hidden treasure.
From The Child's World Third Reader by Hetty Browne, Sarah Withers, W.K. Tate
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