"between a rock and a hard place" meaning in 英語

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    "ギリシア神話の「スキュラとカリュブディス」の話に関連。アメリカ合衆国で使われ始めた言葉。"
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          "text": "1970, David Sim, \"Tangent\",",
          "translation": "Husbands, it seems to me, are caught between the Rock of Feminism and the Hard Place of their own marriages (後略)"
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          "text": "2008, Eric Dash and Geraldine Fabrikant, \"Washington Mutual stock falls on investor fears\", Washington Post, September 11,",
          "translation": "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 troubled banks."
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        "困難な選択を迫られている状況を指す成句。板ばさみ。ジレンマ。"
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    {
      "word": "between the devil and the deep blue sea"
    },
    {
      "word": "between Scylla and Charybdis"
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    {
      "word": "on the horns of a dilemma"
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  "word": "between a rock and a hard place"
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    "ギリシア神話の「スキュラとカリュブディス」の話に関連。アメリカ合衆国で使われ始めた言葉。"
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          "text": "1970, David Sim, \"Tangent\",",
          "translation": "Husbands, it seems to me, are caught between the Rock of Feminism and the Hard Place of their own marriages (後略)"
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          "text": "2008, Eric Dash and Geraldine Fabrikant, \"Washington Mutual stock falls on investor fears\", Washington Post, September 11,",
          "translation": "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 troubled banks."
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        "困難な選択を迫られている状況を指す成句。板ばさみ。ジレンマ。"
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      "word": "between the devil and the deep blue sea"
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      "word": "between Scylla and Charybdis"
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    {
      "word": "on the horns of a dilemma"
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  "word": "between a rock and a hard place"
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