straddler

The straddler folds, and the first limper who called the straddler's raise calls.

unknown title 2009

I have an idea that I'm a little bit of a "straddler" as well.

Dissertation Defense - The Verdict Is In Field Notes 2007

He meant to say that the fence straddler in chief will not say anything that will box him into admitting defeat later on.

Gibbs: Obama to focus on 'specific' ideas for health reform 2009

The young actresses playing them here, in the company's new home in Rosslyn's Artisphere, get the fundamentals right, even if the portrayals tend toward the one-note: Haney's Mary is almost preternaturally serene, a woman called on by God to torment the conscience of Barker's Elizabeth, who in turn is evoked as a neurotic fence-straddler, unsettled by the slightest hint of threat.

Theater review of 'Mary Stuart' by the Washington Shakespeare Company Peter Marks 2010

Indeed, he would have looked like a weak-kneed fence straddler.

Latin America 2010

If a covey rose I would load up and pray for a singleton straddler.

Bourjaily on Starter Guns 2008

He's a fence-straddler, not willing to destroy his scientific reputation entirely just partially, but ditching science for pseudo-science.

Betroffenheitstroll EliRabett 2010

"Ken Cuccinelli is not a straddler," said Michael P. Farris, a longtime activist and legal scholar whose concern with a leftward tilt in academia led him to found the Christian Patrick Henry College in Purcellville in 2000.

Va. attorney general off to rocky start with state colleges 2010

"Ken Cuccinelli is not a straddler," said Michael P. Farris, a longtime activist and legal scholar whose concern with a leftward tilt in academia led him to found the Christian Patrick Henry College in Purcellville in 2000.

Va. attorney general off to rocky start with state colleges 2010

It's possible that Romney is such a fence-straddler that he threw the word "timetables" out so people would pick up the signal that he wants to leave, but he embedded it in a sentence so slippery that he'd never have to own up to any meaning he didn't like.

The Republican debate. Ann Althouse 2008