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Phrase(s): *a foot in both camps
Fig. an interest in or to support each of two opposing groups of people. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) • The shop steward had been promised a promotion and so had a foot in both camps during the strike—workers and management. • Mr. Smith has a foot in both camps in the parent-teacher dispute. He teaches math, but he has a son at the school.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs