How to pronounce “monkey in the middle”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (children's games, uncountable) A children's game in which two players keep an object away from a third player (who is in between them) by throwing it past that player.
• (countable) The third player in that game.
• (figuratively, by extension, countable) A middleman, particularly in a difficult spot or situation.

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