sit on the fence
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The question has dominated boxing for the best part of a decade, and British fight fans rarely sit on the fence.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
“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
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
"I'm perfectly content to sit on the fence and see the columns pass."
From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
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