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Значение идиомы middle-of-the-road
[middle-of-the-road] {adj.} Favoring action halfway between twoopposite movements or ideas; with ideas halfway between two oppositesides; seeing good on both sides.
The men who wrote theConstitution followed a middle-of-the-road plan on whether greaterpower belonged to the United States government or to the separatestates.
Senator Jones favors a middle-of-the-road policy in thelabor-management dispute.
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