at a stand

prepositional phrase2

1. •
   In a state of confusion or uncertainty; undecided what to do next.

   • Now I am quite at a stand.
2. •
   Not progressing; not changing; at a standstill; at an impasse.

   • Debreas on the other side, with cheerefull speech, and his owne valour, so encouraged his souldiors, that Scanderbeg was there notably resisted, and his fortune as it were at a stand: — 1603