between the hammer and the anvil

between the hammer and the anvil
Having the choice between two unpleasant or distasteful options; in a predicament or quandary.

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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