monkey in the middle
01
a children's game in which two players throw a ball at each other in a manner that prevents the third player from catching the ball
Dialect
American
American
02
a person who is in the middle of two fighting or arguing sides
DialectAmerican
American
Idiom
Informal
例子
Sarah felt like a monkey in the middle when her friends started arguing, trying to pull her onto their respective sides of the disagreement.
