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.