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Dan Bennett

U.S. columnist

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.

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by choice

[by choice] {adv. phr.} As a result of choosing because of wanting to; freely. * /John helped his father by choice./ * /Mary ate a plum, but not by choice. […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[in the middle] {adv.} or {adj. phr.} In between two sides of an argument; caught between two dangers. * /Mary found herself in the middle of the quarrel between Joyce […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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