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caught between two stools

phrase

Definitions

  1. Unable to fit into either of two conflicting categories, and as a result likely to fail.

    • No matter how hard they tried to clarify their position, the universalists found themselves “caught between two stools”—that is, Nazism and Austrofascism— rejected by the former and rejecting the latter.

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