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Phrase(s): 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.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs