between the devil and the deep blue sea
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The useful cliché that is pounding like a bad headache through the frontal lobe of millions of voters is the one about choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2016
At the conference, Mr Longworth said the EU referendum was a choice between the "devil and the deep blue sea".
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2016
Director-general John Longworth told the organization's convention this week that Britain faced a choice between "the devil and the deep blue sea."
From US News ● Mar. 5, 2016
"Opel is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea."
From Reuters ● Sep. 12, 2011
The local Californian authorities were thus thrust between the devil and the deep blue sea.
From The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by Stewart Edward White
