(redirected from falling between two stools)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Idioms.


1. a rootstock or base of a plant, usually a woody plant, from which shoots, etc., are produced
2. a cluster of shoots growing from such a base
3. Chiefly US a decoy used in hunting
4. waste matter evacuated from the bowels
5. (in W Africa, esp Ghana) a chief's throne


The flat piece upon which a window closes, corresponding to the sill of a door.

packing piece, stool

A block which is used to raise one or more members above others.


1. The flat piece upon which a window shuts down, corresponding to the sill of a door.
2. A narrow shelf fitted across the lower part of the inside of a window opening; butts against the sill.
4. Same as packing piece.
5. A framed support.
References in periodicals archive ?
Although tremendous flamenco stomping to music by the Gipsy Kings is the loudest part of the experience, it's a close call between that and the sound of a show falling between two stools.
It's difficult to know what to make of it all, at hough I wonder whether the makers ruptured themselves falling between two stools - the glossy, glitzy, "It'll-be-a-talk-of-the-nation drama" stool and the so-bad-and-so-laughable-it's-good stool.
Woodward's reputation is hanging by the thinnest of threads with the Lions seemingly falling between two stools.
Falling between two stools, he finds himself isolated.
The book, therefore, is in danger of falling between two stools; it is too uncontextualized (and argumentative) for the neophyte and too succinct and allusive to wholly persuade the specialist in the field.