middle of the road

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middle of the road

adjective middle-of-the-road

  1. idiomatic Having a centrist attitude or philosophy; not extreme, especially politically. A typical middle of the road compromise is to leave the problem as it is.
  2. derogatory, sometimes Of a type of melodic popular music that has wide appeal. Damon Albarn has disappointed fans expecting the third Adele album to take a drill’n’bass direction by saying that the tracks he has heard are “very middle of the road”.

noun middle-of-the-road

  1. idiomatic, uncountable The middle; the average. If us two competed together, we'd probably score just barely under the middle of the road.

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