"fence-sit" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fence-sits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fence-sitting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fence-sat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fence-sat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fence-sits",
        "2": "fence-sitting",
        "3": "fence-sat"
      },
      "expansion": "fence-sit (third-person singular simple present fence-sits, present participle fence-sitting, simple past and past participle fence-sat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Jane Adamson, Othello As Tragedy: Some Problems of Judgement and Feeling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12:",
          "text": "My point, therefore, in beginning with what everyone knows are the two main views of Othello (and hence Othello) is not to adjudicate between them, nor to dismiss both, nor to fence-sit, but to suggest that each answers to something important in the play – which also means that each underestimates something important as well.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sit on the fence (to remain neutral on a certain topic)."
      ],
      "id": "en-fence-sit-en-verb-Ygq2--UN",
      "links": [
        [
          "sit on the fence",
          "sit on the fence#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic, rare) To sit on the fence (to remain neutral on a certain topic)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fence-sit"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fence-sits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fence-sitting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fence-sat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fence-sat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fence-sits",
        "2": "fence-sitting",
        "3": "fence-sat"
      },
      "expansion": "fence-sit (third-person singular simple present fence-sits, present participle fence-sitting, simple past and past participle fence-sat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Jane Adamson, Othello As Tragedy: Some Problems of Judgement and Feeling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12:",
          "text": "My point, therefore, in beginning with what everyone knows are the two main views of Othello (and hence Othello) is not to adjudicate between them, nor to dismiss both, nor to fence-sit, but to suggest that each answers to something important in the play – which also means that each underestimates something important as well.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To sit on the fence (to remain neutral on a certain topic)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sit on the fence",
          "sit on the fence#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic, rare) To sit on the fence (to remain neutral on a certain topic)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fence-sit"
}