• gray area(US)

Because grey is a blend of black and white, and thus ametaphor for how animperfect nature is a blend ofperfection andperfidy.

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greyarea (pluralgrey areas)

1. (idiomatic) Anareaintermediate between twomutuallyexclusivestates orcategories, where theborder between the two isfuzzy or ill-defined.

   It exists in agrey area between legal and illegal.

2. (idiomatic) Atopic that is notclearly one thing or the other, that is open tointerpretation.
   • 2007 May,Men's Health, volume22, number 4, page94:

     Fame is agrey area[.]

• (an area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories):penumbra

• bright line

• grey hat,grey literature,greyline,grey market

• black and white
• fall between two stools
• twilight zone

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