at a stand

Prepositional phrase

 * 1)  In a state of confusion or uncertainty; undecided what to do next.
 * Now I am quite at a stand.
 * 1) * 1767,, The Babler, London: J. Newbery et al., Volume 1, No. 15, p.67,
 * Some how or other my eye encountered with Miss Maria’s at the end of this speech; she seemed conscious, and on my observing that Mr. Wellworth was an excellent young man, she reddened excessively, and seemed at a stand for words.
 * 1) * 1847,, Journal of Travels over the Rocky Mountains to the Mouth of the Columbia River, entry for 12October, 1845, Reuben Gold Thwaites (ed.), Early Western Travels Volume 30, Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark, 1906, p.139,
 * I began for the first time to falter, and was at a stand to know what course to pursue.
 * 1) * 1956, (as Michael Innes), A Question of Queens (alternative title Old Hall, New Hall), New York: Dodd, Mead, Chapter 16, p.162,
 * He asked me, had I heard any untoward news abroad? I replied instantly that I had not. Nothing of foreigners come into the neighbourhood? This put me rather at a stand.
 * 1)  Not progressing; not changing; at a standstill; at an impasse.
 * 2) * 1717, (translator), ’s  in Fifteen Books, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 15, “The Pythagorean Philosophy,” p.521,
 * Thus are their Figures never at a stand,
 * But chang’d by Nature’s innovating Hand;
 * All Things are alter’d, nothing is destroy’d,
 * The shifted Scene for some new Show employ’d.
 * But chang’d by Nature’s innovating Hand;
 * All Things are alter’d, nothing is destroy’d,
 * The shifted Scene for some new Show employ’d.