between the devil and the deep blue sea
Example Sentences
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You’re caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
From BBC • May 31, 2024
The useful cliché that is pounding like a bad headache through the frontal lobe of millions of voters is the one about choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2016
Director-general John Longworth told the organization's convention this week that Britain faced a choice between "the devil and the deep blue sea."
From US News • Mar. 5, 2016
"Opel is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea."
From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2011
It looks to me, my son, as if we were between the devil and the deep blue sea.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Harris, Joel Chandler
