middle of the road
[adjective]
Synonyms: moderate, middle-road, soft-shell

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

ˌmiddle-of-the-ˈroad adjective

1. middle-of-the-road ideas or opinions are not extreme, and so most people are likely to agree with them:
a party offering safe, middle-of-the-road policies

2. middle-of-the-road voters or politicians have ideas that are not extreme

3. informal ordinary and not new, different, or exciting:
Their first album was quite good, but the second was very middle-of-the-road stuff.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

middle-of-the-road
1.
not extreme politically.
Neither party is exactly radical - they're both fairly middle-of-the-road.

2.
entertainment that is middle-of-the-road is ordinary and acceptable to most people but it is not exciting or special in any way.
Most of the music they play is pretty middle-of-the-road.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

middle of the road
halfway between two different ideas, seeing good on both sides of an issue
The mayor was elected because his ideas were very middle of the road.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

middle of the road
n. phr. A way of thinking which does not favor one idea or thing too much; being halfway between two different ideas.
The teacher did not support the boys or the girls in the debate, but stayed in the middle of the road.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

middle of the road
adj. Favoring action halfway between two opposite movements or ideas; with ideas halfway between two opposite sides; seeing good on both sides.
The men who wrote the Constitution followed a middle-of-the-road plan on whether greater power belonged to the United States government or to the separate states.
Senator Jones favors a middle-of-the-road policy in the labor-management dispute.

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