Sentence examples for Caught between two stools from inspiring English sources

Stoke seemed caught between two stools.

But in terms of his performance or identity, he looks caught between two stools.

But his pre-lunch burst on Thursday to Phillip Hughes might have been designed by Hughes himself, since when he has apparently been caught between two stools: drop short, like Steve Harmison, or pitch it up, à la Graham Onions?

Whatever the rationale behind England's selection calls – both Owen Farrell and Sam Burgess left no one in doubt about their big-match temperaments – there was a lack of balance to the teamsheet and a sense of England being caught between two stools.

"Here he's caught between two stools.

"We were too open and got caught between two stools, of pressing and getting a good block on.

Jones may well have been right in saying that the loss of half a number from his back – a reference to the long-time captain being caught between two positional stools – has worked the oracle, but it still takes some character to deliver performances of such quality after so harrowing an experience.

Then she got caught between two breakwaters.

"He was caught between two countries, and I'm caught between two terminals and which gate".

But "The Untold War" is caught between two worlds.

Simply put, I find myself caught between two duties.