entre la espada y la pared
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “between sword and wall”
Adverb
[edit]- (idiomatic) back to the wall, between a rock and a hard place, between Scylla and Charybdis, caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, be on the horns of a dilemma
Further reading
[edit]- “entre la espada y la pared”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28