Learn English – an idiom to describe someone who takes sides with both of two opposing sides

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What is an idiom (or an adjective) to describe someone who considers and takes sides with both of two opposing sides?

I mean someone who, for example, says that both of contrasting sides in an argument could be right.

Best Answer

a foot in both camps TFD This idiom describes participation with both sides:

some involvement with or support for two opposing sides.

As in:

  • When my friends split up, I felt like I had a foot in both camps.

Though it would not be idiomatic, the opposite would be grammatical:

  • When my friends split up, I felt like I had a foot in neither camp
    and had lost both as friends.

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