"Between a rock and a hard place".
Caught between a rock and a hard place means being faced with a dilemma that only affords a choice between two unpleasant alternatives. The phrase originated in America in the early 1900s to describe a dispute between copper miners and the mining companies in Bisbee, Arizona.
Between a rock and a hard place Idiom Definition – Grammarist
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Winston Churchill:
"Democracy is three wolves and a sheep discussing who to eat for lunch"
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@dood111 saidNot even remotely a Churchill quotation. Most likely devised by (sigh...) a libertarian agitprop-ist from the USA, but certainly not Churchill.
@Grampy-Bobby
Winston Churchill:
"Democracy is three wolves and a sheep discussing who to eat for lunch"
This one demonstrably is, though:
"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
If you wish for provenance, you should be able to find it in Hansard - if you barbarians know what that is.
