no-man's-land
Nouns
- (n) an unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies
- (n) land that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable)
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(n) the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)
- but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal
- in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity
- in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression