| 词组 | INDECISION |
| 释义 | IDIOMSLANG INDECISION back and fill to act indecisively; to change one's direction repeatedly; to reverse one's course. (Originally nautical, referring to alternately filling the sails with wind and releasing the wind. Fixed order.)The president spent most of his speech backing and filling on the question of taxation.The other candidate was backing and filling on every issue, depending on whom she was addressing. blow hot and cold to be changeable or uncertain (about something). (Fixed order.)He keeps blowing hot and cold on the question of moving to the country.He blows hot and cold about this. I wish he'd make up his mind. hang in the balance to be in an undecided state; to be between two equal possibilities.The prisoner stood before the judge with his life hanging in the balance.This whole issue will have to hang in the balance until Jane gets back from her vacation. hem and haw (around) to be uncertain about something; to be evasive; to say "ah" and "eh" when speaking—avoiding saying something meaningful. (Folksy. Fixed order.)Stop hemming and hawing around. I want an answer.Don't just hem and haw around. Speak up. We want to hear what you think. in the balance in an undecided state.He stood on the edge of the cliff his life in the balance.With his fortune in the balance, John rolled the dice. not know where to turn and not know which way to turn to have no idea about what to do (about something).I was so confused I didn't know where to turn.We needed help, but we didn't know which way to turn. sit on the fence not to make a clear choice between two possibilities.When Jane and Tom argue, it is well to sit on the fence and then you won't make either of them angry.No one knows which of the candidates Joan will vote for. She's sitting on the fence. The jury is still out (on someone or something) a decision has not been reached on someone or something; the people making the decision on someone or something have not yet decided.The jury is still out on Jane. We don't know what we are going to do about her.The jury is still out on the question of building a new parking lot. toing and froing (on something) moving back and forth on an issue, first deciding one way and then changing to another.The boss spent most of the afternoon toing and froing on the question of who was to handle the Wilson account.I wish you would stop toing and froing and make up your mind. up in the air (about someone or something) undecided about someone or something; uncertain about someone or something.I don't know what Sally plans to do. Things were sort of up in the air the last time we talked.Let's leave this question up in the air until next week. wait-and-see attitude a skeptical attitude; an uncertain attitude where someone will just wait and see what happens. (Fixed order.)John thought that Mary couldn't do it, but he took a wait-and-see attitude.His wait-and-see attitude didn't influence me at all. |
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