strike a medium

Definitions

1. 1

   To choose or provide a moderate option between two extremes.

   • The telephone, as a conveyor of unwelcome messages, strikes a medium between the letter by mail and the face-to-face interview.
   • We must compromise as to the heating of the tent. He would keep it hot, I cold, and either’s comfort is the other’s pneumonia. We strike a medium, and he shivers outside his bag, while I swelter in mine;

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