between the hammer and the anvil

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介词短语
  1. With the choice between two unpleasant or distasteful options; in a predicament or quandary. UK,idiomatic
    — Yet for a time the nation was again placed between the democracy of the levellers and the despotism of the Stuarts, — between the hammer and the anvil.

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Referring to the metal on a blacksmith's anvil, which is beaten with a hammer.
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