caught in the middle

to experience the influence of opposing groups in a disagreement caught in the crossfire My mother and sister are always yelling at each other, and I find myself caught in the middle.

Related vocabulary: in the cross hairs

caught in the middle

Also, caught in the cross-fire. Between two opposing sides, as in The writers are often caught in the middle between editor and publisher, who are political opponents , or When parents don't get along, the children are often caught in the cross-fire. Long used in military situations, these terms began to be used figuratively in the second half of the 1800s.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Dannie	DAN-ee	English
Takouhi	-	Armenian
Savitr	-	Hinduism
Sirius	SIR-ee-əs (English), SEER-ee-əs (English)	Astronomy
Onesiphorus	-	Biblical, Biblical Latin
Zephyros	-	Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek