by Kevin Burton Today we continue a look at words and phrases about the middle from the Merriam Webster dictionary. We start with two phrases about being forced into difficult decisions: Devil and the deep blue sea Many phrases that evoke in-between-ness also situate the speaker between two undesirable end points, like the …
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Stuck In The Middle With Merriam-Webster
by Kevin Burton I hope you don’t find this a middling effort, but today we bring to you, words about the middle. This is a list from the Merriam-Webster dictionary, but it reminds me of the late, great Gerry Rafferty. While a member of Stealers Wheel, Rafferty wrote “Stuck In The Middle With …
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