Meanings (ES + gloss)
entre la cruz y el agua bendita • entre la espada y la pared
In a difficult and inescapable position.
A dish gone awry after adding the wrong ingredient. Chewing your way through this won't be fun, but it will fill you up when you're between a rock and a hard place.
After meeting again that afternoon with Donna, Wilbur had advised her that she was indeed between a rock and a hard place. She could not hope to recover and build back the lost bus…
entre la espada y la pared
Having the choice between two unpleasant or distasteful options; in a predicament or quandary.
Husbands, it seems to me, are caught between the Rock of Feminism and the Hard Place of their own marriages […]
If Washington Mutual needs to raise capital quickly, it will very likely find itself between a rock and a hard place, because credit markets have all but closed their doors to trou…
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