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What does sit on the fence mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sit on the fence? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To remain neutral on a certain topic, to not have a stance or opinion.
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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.
Turkey's attempts to sit on the fence may be partly explained by self-interest.
They want someone to make all their choices for them, so they just sit on the fence and wait to be told what to do.
Any political forces which sit on the fence, thereby giving this obscurantist policy an alibi, also bear serious responsibility for this anti-communist hysteria.
So he will sit on the fence and will get cut right down the middle.
Canada's response in the face of gross human rights violations and a rigged election is to sit on the fence.

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