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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pick
on
time
table
tennis
summer
sun
screen
shot
glass
peanut
butter
knife
fight
scene
picket
fence
post
mark
down
Phrasicle: On the Fence