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English equivalent of "estar entre la espada y la pared"?
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If you do a Google search for "entre la espada y la pared", the first English translation offered on the first page, gives the following result. (see below)
[PDF] Entre la Espada y la Pared: Critical Educators, Bilingual ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
The English equivalent to the Spanish saying, Entre la espada y la pared, is ?be-. tween a rock and hard place.? The Random House Dictionary of Popular ...
www.leaonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s1532771xjle0404_6 -
If you do a Google search for "entre la espada y la pared", the first English translation offered on the first page, gives the following result. (see below)
[PDF] Entre la Espada y la Pared: Critical Educators, Bilingual ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
The English equivalent to the Spanish saying, Entre la espada y la pared, is ?be-. tween a rock and hard place.? The Random House Dictionary of Popular ...
www.leaonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s1532771xjle0404_6 -
To say that one is stuck "between a rock and a hard place" stresses that there are two forces which are restricting one's movement. Often it is the opposite direction of these forces that causes the sticking point. One is unable for some particular reason to do something that one would like to do, such as act or not act in a certain way. "I'd like to help you but I am stuck between a rock and a hard place." To have someone between a rock and a hard place is to have them in a position that causes them to make a choice that they don't want to make. "You've got me between a rock and a hard place; I'll sell it to you at the price you quoted."
source http://www.goenglish.com/BetweenARockAndAHardPlace.asp
source http://www.goenglish.com/BetweenARockAndAHardPlace.asp
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