twilight zone

twilight zone

An ambiguous area between the boundaries of two concepts, conditions, etc.; a gray area. The phrase originated before it became the title of the popular television show. Unfortunately, his citizenship status is in the twilight zone now that the courts are reviewing the legality of the immigration restrictions. Jeff and I somehow ended up holding hands at the movie last night, and now we're in this weird twilight zone between friendship and dating.
See also: twilight, zone
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • keep within
  • keep within (something or some place)
  • stake out
  • stake someone/something out
  • in (one's) neck of the woods
  • in your, this, etc. neck of the woods
  • your neck of the woods
  • neck of the woods
  • neck of the woods, this
  • God's country
References in periodicals archive
The producers, who are passionate fans of the original, needed to tackle two crucial questions to bring the revival to life: What about "The Twilight Zone" works in 2019 -- and what most needed to be reworked?
Needless to say, neither this nor any other episode of Black Mirror ends, as The Twilight Zone typically did, with the auteur appearing on camera in a debonair suit, holding a cigarette and delivering a short lecture to make sure the audience gets the point.
American writer Mara Wilson wrote, "The Twilight Zone."
Dawidziak isn't alone in using The Twilight Zone to teach ethics.
In his introduction, Melbye conducts the requisite literature review of both popular and scholarly works on The Twilight Zone, such as the widely circulated The Twilight Zone Companion by Marc Scott Zicree, which Melbye alternately reinforces and refutes throughout the book.
Traveling into the Twilight Zone of copyright revealed many approaches and reinforced the lawyerly response to contentious questions as "It depends." An amazing amount of copyright information, opinions, and advice was exchanged in only 1 day.
I took in their Twilight Zone first, and in two hours, four wholly improvised stories demonstrated a superior understanding of Rod Serling's stable of kitchen-sink fantasists.
After a "Twilight Zone" moment, I looked at the caulk more closely.
All you have to do is tell us how many episodes were there in the original American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, created by Rod Serling.
THE TWILIGHT ZONE: A CELEBRATION OF STEPHENIE MEYER'S TWILIGHT SAGA A fantastic event for all you Twi-hards and Twilighters out there.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone, a middle ground between winter's lingering shadow and the light of summer.
BEING a student again (only this time with a fulltime job and a mortgage), the passing of the fashion icon that was Yves Saint Laurent, beauty emergencies and the joys of dry shampoo, Twilight Zone TV schedules and Sawyer from Lost coming out of the sea sans-shirt.
(2) MESOPELAGIC ZONE: Also called the twilight zone, only dim light penetrates this region of the ocean.
In March, as the Republican-led House of Representatives wrestled with a harsh reform bill that would build a wall on the border and classify crossers as felons, Robinson's campaign launched a TV ad that opened with the theme from The Twilight Zone and Rod Serling--style narration: "If you're a conservative Republican, watching the news these days can make you feel as though you're in the Twilight Zone....