RailTo sit on the rail. To shuffle off a direct answer; to hedge or to fence; to reserve the decision of one's vote. Here rail means the fence, and “to sit on the rail” to sit on one side. A common American phrase. “If he said `Yes,' there was an end to any church support at once; if
`No,' he might as well go home at once. So he tried to sit on the rail
again.” — Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Rail from Infoplease:
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