Citations:between a rock and a hard place

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English citations of between a rock and a hard place

To be bankrupt

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  • [1918, Dialect Notes[1], volume 5, page 113:
    to be between a rock and a hard place, vb. ph. To be bankrupt. Common in Arizona in recent panics; sporadic in California.]