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词组 keep a foot in both camps
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Idiom
keep a foot in both campshave/keep a foot in both camps
to be involved with two groups of people who often have very different aims and opinions.
He has moved from fringe to mainstream theatre, but he still keeps a foot in both camps.
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a foot in both camps

Some involvement with or support for two opposing sides. When my friends split up, I felt like I had a foot in both camps. I've worked with both teams, and I think they both have good ideas, so to be honest I have a foot in both camps.

*foot in both camps

Fig. an interest in or to support each of two opposing groups of people. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.) The shop steward had been promised a promotion and so had a foot in both camps during the strike—workers and management. Mr. Smith has a foot in both camps in the parent-teacher dispute. He teaches math, but he has a son at the school.
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