[post_page_title]”Between a rock and a hard place”[/post_page_title]
When facing a dilemma, we often describe it as feeling as though we are “between a rock and a hard place.” This bizarre-sounding metaphor is a somewhat inaccurate reference to Homer’s Odyssey. The hero, Odysseus, finds himself stuck between Charybdis, a menacing whirlpool, and Scylla, a carnivorous man-eating monster who dwelled in the cliffs.
From then on, the metaphor of a rock, as reference to the cliff, and a hard place, i.e. the whirlpool, has been used to describe being challenged by a double-pronged situation.
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