fence-sit

present singular third person fence-sits · participle present fence-sitting · participle past fence-sat · past fence-sat

1. idiomaticintransitiverareTo sit on the fence (to remain neutral on a certain topic).

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   My point, therefore, in beginning with what everyone knows are the two main views of Othello (and hence Othello) is not to adjudicate between them, nor to dismiss both, nor to fence-sit, but to suggest that each answers to something important in the play – which also means that each underestimates something important as well.

   1980, Jane Adamson, Othello As Tragedy: Some Problems of Judgement and Feeling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12