Thesaurus / between a rock and a hard place

between a rock and a hard place

synonyms for between a rock and a hard place

QUIZ

Quaere Yourself: Can I Ace This Week's Word Of The Day Quiz?

In sorting notes it is necessary to be able readily to distinguish between notes of this bank and notes of other reserve banks.

The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.

He thrust his tiny tuft of beard between his teeth—a trick he had when perplexed or thoughtful.

This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.

To Harrison and his wife there was no distinction between the executive and judicial branches of the law.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

He looked strangely out of place in the dusty combat uniform.

SENSE OF OBLIGATIONHENRY MAXWELL DEMPSEY (AKA HARRY HARRISON)

He noticed at the same time several burnt matches between his cushions and her chair.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

The associations of place recall her strange interview with Mr. Longcluse but a few months before.

CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU

As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.

Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985