Timeline for A phrase that basically means 'change your mind a second time to go back to your original idea'
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| Feb 23, 2017 at 1:54 | comment | added | Tasos Papastylianou | Good point, thank you! There is a subtle distinction between oscillate and vacillate in my understanding, which is that the former implies going fully from one position to the other and back again, etc, whereas the latter implies hovering back and forth between the two extremes but not quite ever making a decision per se. So the latter implies more hesitation and indecisiveness, rather than constant backtracking. | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 22:27 | comment | added | barbecue | Vacillate embodies the same concept but specifically with regard to decision making. | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 13:32 | history | answered | Tasos Papastylianou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |