Phrase guide
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Not fitting neatly into either of two categories or positions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see between, two, stool.
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History
From an old proverb, "Between two stools, one falls to the ground", which dates from 1390. This, in turn, is most likely a translation of the medieval Latin proverb labitur enitens sellis herere duabus ("he falls trying to sit on two seats").
