it means you dont know which side to take...for example...do you like chocolate or vanilla more? If you cant decide, you are stuck in the middle...you are "sitting on the fence"
Undecided; sometimes meaning to avoid making a decision for as long as possible, procrastinating.
It's not an idiom, it's a simile. Someone is uglier than a fence used to stop mud from flowing across a field.
The phrase "over the fence" or also known as "on the fence" is a common English idiom. It means when a person has to choose between two sides.
This is not an idiom. Idioms are phrases that don't mean anything unless you know the definition. This is a sentence saying that your photograph or painting or drawing is sitting atop a piano.
This is a sports idiom. If you're not playing well enough, the coach makes you sit on the sidelines of the field instead of joining the game. If you are sitting on the sidelines, you are not participating. You have been "benched." The idiom means that you're not part of whatever is going on.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
" Sitting on the fence" is an idiom that means being undecided or neutral on an issue.
A good idiom would be "sitting on the fence."
The meaning of this idiom is "an easy target".
It's not an idiom, it's a simile. Someone is uglier than a fence used to stop mud from flowing across a field.
The phrase "over the fence" or also known as "on the fence" is a common English idiom. It means when a person has to choose between two sides.
from the early 1800's from an American politician who described his position 'as a man sitting on the fence, with clean boots, watching carefully, which way he may leap to keep out of the mud,
This is not an idiom. Idioms are phrases that don't mean anything unless you know the definition. This is a sentence saying that your photograph or painting or drawing is sitting atop a piano.
It's not an idiom because it means just what it seems to mean. You should stay on the side of the fence that you are currently on and not climb over.
The phrase "on the fence" is an example of an idiom, specifically one that is used to describe someone who is undecided or uncommitted about a particular issue or decision.
This is a sports idiom. If you're not playing well enough, the coach makes you sit on the sidelines of the field instead of joining the game. If you are sitting on the sidelines, you are not participating. You have been "benched." The idiom means that you're not part of whatever is going on.
There's a cowboy sitting on the fence.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.