a foot in both camps
*a 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.
热门单词
- absolve
- A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
- advertise sth for sth
- a fair shake
- after the style of so or sth
- agitate for sth
- a good sport
- aid so in doing sth
- alert
- alike as (two) peas in a pod
- (all) in one breath
- (all) joking aside
- all over hell and gone
- all over the earth
- all tore up (about sth)
- (almost) jump out of one's skin
- a match made in heaven
- a mile a minute
- anger
- answer so's purpose
- answer the call
