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Between Two StoolsBetween Two Stools : PhrasesMeaning: Fail, due to being unable to choose between two alternatives. Origin: This is an old phrase. It is first cited in John Gower's Confessio Amantis, 1390:
The first recorded use in modern English is in Matthew Prior's comic poem Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind, 1717:
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