in a cleft stick

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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

  1. edat öbeği In a difficult situation, unable to choose between unfavourable options; in a dilemma.

    “Ha! I see. You have got me in a cleft stick.”

  2. edat öbeği Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, cleft, stick.

    “Hence when a Huichol woman is about to weave or embroider, her husband catches a large serpent and holds it in a cleft stick, while the woman strokes the reptile with one hand down the whole length of its back; …”

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