VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

The jury is out

Meaning:

an outcome or decision is still unknown and awaited.

Examples:

  • I am afraid that at the moment the jury is out.
  • Right now the jury is out on this matter. I write these pages soon after I build them and wait until the evening to test them.
  • I would end by saying to the President-in-Office that the jury is out, the ball is in his court and that he has all our support.
  • I shall vote against an immediate vote of censure, but President Santer knows that the jury is out on the reform programme he has outlined today.
  • The jury is out.
  • The jury is out.
  • The jury is out.
  • The jury is out and we are gambling in advance of Cancun with the critical part of Europe's economic policy, the CAP.