in the middle

Catch-22 Hobson's choice between Scylla and Charybdis between a rock and a hard place between the hammer and the anvil between two fires cornered in a dilemma in a pickle in a predicament no choice sitting on a powder keg

ambivalent betwixt and between blowing hot and cold borderline debatable divided hemming and hawing hesitant iffy impartial indecisive irresolute neutral not definite not sure of two minds open running hot and cold tentative torn uncertain unclear uncommitted undetermined unsure up in the air waffling wavering wishy-washy

ambivalent doubtful hesitant uncertain unclear uncommitted undetermined unsure vague wavering

betwixt and between blowing hot and cold borderline debatable dithering dubious equivocal hemming and hawing iffy indecisive indefinite irresolute moot of two minds on the fence open pendent pending running hot and cold tentative torn unfinished unsettled up in the air waffling wishy-washy

certain clear definite determined resolved secure settled sure

decided undoubted

betwixt

amid amidst among at intervals bounded by centrally located enclosed by halfway in in the midst of in the seam in the thick of inserted interpolated intervening medially mid midway separating

about straight

by clear for the period from beginning to end in in and out into past round throughout

around