Thesaurus:in a dilemma
English
Prepositional phrase
Sense: between undesirable alternatives
Synonyms
- between a rock and a hard place (idiomatic)
- between Scylla and Charybdis (idiomatic)
- between the devil and the deep blue sea (idiomatic)
- between the hammer and the anvil (chiefly UK, idiomatic)
- between two fires (idiomatic)
- damned if one does and damned if one doesn't (idiomatic)
- doomed if you do, doomed if you don't (idiomatic)
- in a cleft stick (Australia, UK, dated, idiomatic)
- in bad bread (UK, obsolete)
- on the horns of a dilemma (idiomatic)
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Various
See also
Further reading
- “665. danger” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “in a dilemma” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.