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at a stand

prep.phr. (context idiomatic English) In a state of confusion or uncertainty; undecided what to do next.

Usage examples of "at a stand".

She stopped at a stand of colorful hollyhocks on long graceful stems and gathered an armful of different hues.

As Diamond returned, he drew up at a stand he had never been on before: it was time to give Diamond his bag of chopped beans and oats.

And, although fighting the crowd was preferable to sitting alone in her rooms, waiting for a call she was certain would never come, after being jostled in several of the more popular shops--not really seeing the merchandise, but merely struggling through--then gulping down a hurried lunch at a stand-up deli while watching the crowd swell, she was more than ready to return to her quarters.

Randall walked down to the corner, glanced speculatively at a stand of taxis, then swung aboard a bus which had just drawn up to its stop.

He went down to his right, throwing himself at a stand of grayish green rock jutting up from the broken earth.

But, having once learnt that everything that is born must likewise die (that the world may not be at a stand, or the course of it hindered), I no longer make any difference whether this be effected by a fever, or a tile, or a soldier.

Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.

She took a clawed swipe in passing at a stand of priceless Yyrbittium trumpet-blooms, shredding the carmine leaves.