between the devil and the deep blue sea

You’re caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

“As she tells it, Doe was stuck choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea — one course risking her life, the other risking her father’s,” the court said in a decision written by Judge Alison J. Nathan.

Collette Schulz-Herzenberg, a political science professor at South Africa’s Stellenbosch University, said that Mr. Ramaphosa was caught “between the devil and the deep blue sea.”

So if “Gulf Stream” was a commentary on the predicament of Black people in the South — caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, eyes fixed on fleeting freedom — Homer didn’t want to offer false hope.

The show has many pleasures, like the heavenly vocal harmonies in “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” and a timely reminder that tap is exhilarating.