| Word | fall between two stools |
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| Description | fail to be or to take one of two satisfactory alternatives This phrase comes from the proverb between two stools one falls to the ground - first referred to in English by the medieval writer John Gower in Confessio Amantis (c.1390). fail to be or to take one of two satisfactory alternatives This phrase comes from the |
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