<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up between the devil and the deep blue sea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up between the devil and the deep blue sea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> "Between the devil and the deep blue sea" is an idiom meaning a dilemma--i.e., to choose between two undesirable situations (equivalent to "between a rock and a hard place"). </P> <P> The first recorded citation of "the Devil and the deep sea" in print is in Robert Monro's His expedition with the worthy Scots regiment called Mac - keyes, 1637: "I, with my partie, did lie on our poste, as betwixt the devill and the deep sea ." </P>

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