«between the devil and the deep blue sea» / Lingvo Live

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Антон Баёвasked for translation hace 7 años

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between the devil and the deep blue sea

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1.
to be between the devil and the deep blue sea
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Выбирать из двух зол
translation added by Elena Bogomolova
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To be between the devil and the deep [blue] sea – в безвыходном положении; [букв. перевод: "между дьяволом и морской пучиной”]. В русском языке соответствует выражениям «между двух огней»; «между молотом и наковальней». (c)
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http://polyidioms.narod.ru/index/0-139
translation added by Artyom Lugovoy
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⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment hace 7 años

This has become kind of archaic. In the modern language we tend to say "between a rock and hard place" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=between+the+devil+and+*%2Cbetween+a+rock+and+*&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t2%3B%2Cbetween%20the%20devil%20and%20%2A%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bbetween%20the%20devil%20and%20the%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbetween%20the%20devil%20and%20his%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbetween%20the%20devil%20and%20a%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbetween%20the%20devil%20and%20mankind%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbetween%20the%20devil%20and%20God%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbetween%20the%20devil%20and%20deep%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbetween%20the%20devil%20and%20Christ%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbetween%20the%20devil%20and%20Jesus%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbetween%20the%20devil%20and%20an%3B%2Cc0%3B.t2%3B%2Cbetween%20a%20rock%20and%20%2A%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bbetween%20a%20rock%20and%20a%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbetween%20a%20rock%20and%20the%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbetween%20a%20rock%20and%20hard%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bbetween%20a%20rock%20and%20an%3B%2Cc0

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