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English Idioms :: middle
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middleweight.html - See: CHANGE HORSES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREAM, IN THE MIDDLE. |
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English Idioms :: middle ground
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middleweight.html - {n.} A place halfway between the two sides of an argument; a compromise. * /John wanted to go running. Bill said it was too hot. Tom took the middle ground and suggested a hike./ * /The committee found a middle ground between the two proposals./ |
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English Idioms :: middle of the road
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middleweight.html - {n. phr.} A way of thinking which does not favor one idea or thing too much; being halfway between two different ideas. * /The teacher did not support the boys or the girls in the debate, but stayed in the middle of the road./ |
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English Idioms :: middle-of-the-road
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middleweight.html - {adj.} Favoring action halfway between two opposite movements or ideas; with ideas halfway between two opposite sides; seeing good on both sides. * /The men who wrote the Constitution followed a middle-of-the-road plan on whether greater power belonged to the United States government or to the separate states./ * /Senator Jones favors a middle-of-the-road policy in the labor-management dispute./ |
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English Idioms :: middleman
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middleweight.html - {n.} A person or small business standing in an intermediary position between two parties. * /A retail merchant is the middleman between the factory and the consumer./ |
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New English :: middleware
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middleweight.html - (Science and Technology) see -ware |
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