Death Before Dishonor (1875); Rock/Hard Place (1960); Blacker the Berry (1961)

Tue Dec 30 13:46:59 UTC 2003

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
>
>    Pg. 25.  Titelman's first citation is 1984.  Now used for "Iraq."

Note that OED has this back to 1921.

Keep up the great work on phrases, Barry!

Fred Shapiro

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