MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Middle-of-the-road

... the Admiral came to hear what I thought about it all. Our plan is bold, but there never was a state of affairs less suited to half and half, keep-in-the-middle-of-the-road tactics than that with which the Empire is faced to-day. If we get through here, now, the war will, must be, over next year. My Manchurian Campaign and two Russian Manoeuvres have taught me that, from Grand Duke to Moujiks, our Allies need just that precise spice of initiative ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton