between Scylla and Charybdis

Mandatory infringement works to place competitors between Scylla and Charybdis, forcing them out of the market and thereby harming consumers.

I don’t expect you to say “between Scylla and Charybdis” but could you please say “between a rock and a whirlpool” instead?

That the only alternative to a pro-choice candidate is President Trump is, believe me, something that many Catholics find unsavory to the point of tragic; the morally repugnant actions and character of the Republican candidate, and the morally unacceptable pro-choice ideology of the present-day Democratic Party, make this election, like the last, a choice between Scylla and Charybdis for Catholic voters, with a shipwreck assured in either case.

A sea peril next awaited them—the passage between Scylla and Charybdis.

The Fed must steer its first policy meeting of the 2020s between Scylla and Charybdis: U.S. stock indexes at nosebleed levels against Trumpian election-year pressure for lower rates.