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On the Fence

What it means

Undecided between two positions, while both sides wait for you to pick one.

Where it comes from

The picture is someone perched on the boundary between two fields, standing in neither. American political writers had turned fence sitter into an insult by the 1800s.

The puzzle it came from

On the Fence was the answer to the Phrasicle of June 21, 2025. The clue read ____ the ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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Phrasicle: On the Fence

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