middle of the road

middle of the road
{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./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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