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gray area
Idioms and Phrases
Indeterminate territory, undefined position, neither here nor there. For example, There's a large gray area between what is legal and what is not . This term, which uses gray in the sense of 鈥渘either black nor white鈥 (or halfway between the two), dates only from the mid-1900s.Example Sentences
That鈥檚 where the confusion is coming from, the people in the gray area.鈥
Then they create a gray area, and make the Republicans sue to get their way.
鈥淲hat we end up with is basically a lot of gray area and question marks that are left to the public to try to figure out themselves.鈥
"If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn鈥檛 be pardoned," he had said, saying there were only some cases where there were "gray areas."
Earlier this month, now-Vice President JD Vance told Fox News that if someone committed violence on Jan. 6, 鈥渙bviously you shouldn鈥檛 be pardoned, and there鈥檚 a little bit of a gray area there.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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