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• Gardatilar

  25.03.2020 at 06:06

  between the devil and the deep blue sea A choice between two evils. A term dating back to the early seventeenth century, it referred not to the devil of hellfire and brimstone but to a seam around a ship’s hull near the waterline. A sailor attempting to caulk this seam in heavy seas was in danger of falling overboard and drowning.

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• Nidal

  21.03.2020 at 20:39

  “Like something between a disturbed dream and a wicked fantasy, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea will slip under your skin and capture the darkest corners of your imagination. This is a hypnotic, terrifying debut that won't soon escape my mind.” —Nova Ren Suma, author of Imaginary Girls/5().

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• Vusida

  26.03.2020 at 00:00

  Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea focuses upon the seaman's experience in order to illuminate larger historical issues such as the rise of capitalism, the genesis the free wage labor, and the growthCited by:

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• Tall

  23.03.2020 at 01:34

  The phrase between the devil and the deep blue sea is an idiom that offers two equally terrible choices. People use this phrase to outline the difficulty they face making a .

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• Nazshura

  23.03.2020 at 19:22

  The phrase was originally 'Between the Devil and the deep sea' (and sometimes 'the Dead Sea' or 'the Red Sea'). The sea turned blue much later and the phrase became well-known via the title of a popular song Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, written by Ted Koehler and Harold Arlen, and recorded by Cab Calloway in

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• Grogal

  24.03.2020 at 02:13

  Sep 20,  · between the devil and the deep blue sea phrase If you say that you are between the devil and the deep blue sea, you mean that you are in a difficult situation where you have to choose between two equally unpleasant courses of action.

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