between the hammer and the anvil

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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

  1. edat öbeği With the choice between two unpleasant or distasteful options; in a predicament or quandary.

    “Yet for a time the nation was again placed between the democracy of the levellers and the despotism of the Stuarts, — between the hammer and the anvil.”

Eş anlamlılar

between a rock and a hard place between Scylla and Charybdis between the devil and the deep blue sea between two fires damned if one does and damned if one doesn't doomed if you do doomed if you don't in a cleft stick in bad bread on the horns of a dilemma