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Nov 2024
7m 31s

Weekend Phrase Fix - To Sit on the Fence

Anna Tyrie, Bleav
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🎙️ E419 of The English Like A Native Podcast.

🔴 This episode is part of the Weekend Phrase Fix series, where we dive deep into essential phrases that should be in your vocabulary toolkit. In today's episode, we focus on the phrase "to sit on the fence."

⏯️ Listen and read along on The English Like a Native Podcast YouTube channel.

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