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betwixt a rock and a hard place en · ADP

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, idiomatic, uncommon) Alternative form of between a rock and a hard place
    • "Mebbe so. But that leaves us betwixt a rock and a hard place - 'less you can help." 1976, Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas (editors), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 51, page 70:
    • He hired Trevor and Drake to drill deeper, feeling trapped betwixt a rock and a hard place. 2005, Tabor Evans, Longarm 319: Longarm and the Sidekick From Hell:
    • Consequently, we on RBM find ourselves betwixt a rock and a hard place. Or we find that during shipping our package have been crushed between what appears to be a rock and a hard place. 1999 October 10, John Joseph Taglia, “UPS - Those bastards”, in rec.bicycles.marketplace (Usenet):
    • Guess that was one time dad was betwixt a rock and a hard place. 1959, Leonard W. Roberts, Up Cutshin and Down Greasy, Folkways of a Kentucky Mountain Family, page 82: