be (caught) in a cleft stick

be (caught) in a cleft stick BrEto be in a very difficult situation in which any action or decision you make will cause problems进退两难，陷于窘境be (caught) in a cleft ˈstickto be in a difficult situation when any action you take will have bad results进退维谷；陷入困境

• expandor
• extra hand
• feedstocks
• sportfisherman
• water-repellents
• take someone upon the hip
• Buxaceae
• soil-borne
• Puppis
• baked winding
• the foreground
• mirandizing
• Saccardiaceae
• expectants
• zophorus
• the old
• mast house
• wampum
• toxi-
• shammer
• ep-
• Bierce, Ambrose (Gwinnett)
• proslaver
• meandrous
• disincline for
• obumbrant
• have a right to be angry / concerned / suspicious etc
• ft-1b／sec
• mentalite
• EU
• five square
• merry dancers
• spectral locus
• Adaline
• argyrias
• Newton's square-root method
• renewal theory
• avow
• exoscopic development
• recti
• Fielding, Henry
• outsit
• postproductions
• scroungings
• declass
• ideographic
• catholically
• trances
• wittiness
• spoke
• brilliantly
• nail down
• cataloguing
• knock something off
• wonga
• at the bare idea of
• High Energy Astrophysical Observatory
• it figures
• Einstein-Bohr equation
• Pezizales
• demagogy
• pull for
• akinetes
• butt fusion
• run a risk
• sell-through
• gaiters
• shamoyed
• cheeseparings
• fixity
• frieze rail
• get under sb’s skin
• opening nights
• scatterest
• hot to trot
• Directoires
• frequency allocation
• eustresses
• instant celebrity
• tackifying
• have not a dry thread on
• dye marker
• hesperus
• screenwriting
• Judah ha-Levi
• AIDS' virus
• skymark
• alarm bells ring/start ringing
• Triunitarian
• wienies
• cineasts
• logways
• A.N.U.
• sphingolipid
• reckon with
• weight cycling
• tetrodotoxins
• shoulder strap
• political economist
• log line