between the devil and the deep blue sea
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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
At the conference, Mr Longworth said the EU referendum was a choice between the "devil and the deep blue sea".
From BBC • Mar. 7, 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
These two facts set out in Statement I and Statement II place the banker who has taken out circulation between the devil and the deep, blue sea.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
