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What does sit on the fence mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To remain neutral on a certain topic, to not have a stance or opinion.
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Canada's response in the face of gross human rights violations and a rigged election is to sit on the fence.
It was still going to be my decision and my decision was going to be that we would not sit on the fence.
Sometimes a decision is required and there's no option to sit on the fence.
Any political forces which sit on the fence, thereby giving this obscurantist policy an alibi, also bear serious responsibility for this anti-communist hysteria.
Turkey's attempts to sit on the fence may be partly explained by self-interest.
The latter is using vaccination but with regard to the UK, on which everyone is focussing, and which has major problems, you come here, Commissioner, and sit on the fence.

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