If you are caught between a rock and a hard place, you are in a difficult situation where you have to choose between two equally unpleasant courses of action.
What’s a hard place?
Definition of ‘to be caught between a rock and a hard place’
If you are caught between a rock and a hard place, you are in a difficult situation where you have to choose between two equally unpleasant courses of action.
What does it mean a rock and a hard place?
Faced with two equally dangerous or difficult choices or circumstances: “Trying to please two supervisors is like being between a rock and a hard place.” This phrase dates from the early twentieth century.
What does stuck in a hard place mean?
DEFINITIONS1. to be in a position in which you have to choose between two things that are not good. Synonyms and related words. To be in, or to get into a difficult situation.