between a rock and a hard place

between a rock and a hard place

• 处于困境；道义上处于难以做出抉择的境地(原为美国西部俗语，因尼克松手下的西部人用得很多而流行于华盛顿，意思同between the devil and the deep sea 差不多)

• beyond one's means
• omniscience
• can of worms
• stannum
• flabellums
• aspergillaless
• table-water
• damsite
• sacrificers
• broomrape family
• kerchiefing
• secondary reactions
• hyperpietic
• centrifugal distortion
• electrophile
• optic cups
• breathtaking
• grangerising
• expiration date
• blewits
• Metrecal
• crimpling
• ropery
• open-door system
• darning mushrooms
• take to the boats
• will contests
• oxamyl
• flosculus
• not go a bundle on sth / sb
• bear, take, etc. the brunt of sth
• emasculations
• at whole sale
• cheesemakers
• clothes line
• twilight arch
• tektite
• lay the bridle on the neck of
• constrictive pericarditis
• zebrawoods
• lance knight
• down-looking
• slitless
• normalization
• eurs
• puts
• nature strips
• bemazed
• I'd
• writing ink
• silk-screen printing
• hymenophore
• fancydan
• treacle mustard
• magueys
• foot pumps
• emboweled或embowelled
• aortography
• grifters
• dip tank
• macrosegment
• b.p.d
• applanate
• coniscope
• Adoptive Transfers
• snatchingly
• cast-film extrusion
• let that fly stick in the wall
• microecology
• social dynamics
• geodic
• thermographies
• gas injection
• time-sharing system
• set a hand to something
• shipshape and bristol fashion
• nonpartisanship
• affair of honour
• photocharting
• draw one’s quill against
• go toes up
• marlinespike
• call into action
• outlet box
• scintillantly
• patrimonialism
• inductive statistics
• shake ... off
• safety razor
• deprived
• hyperboreans
• l.d.p
• podagral
• quantum mechanics
• lie-in
• sense finder
• parallelize
• sweep
• not a dicky bird
• dead-heat