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on the horns of a dilemma
- To be divided between two seemingly equal options and to be undecided as to which option to choose: “When Mary was offered two equally attractive jobs, she found herself on the horns of a dilemma.”
Idioms and Phrases
see horns of a dilemma .Example Sentences
“The administration is on the horns of a dilemma,” said an individual familiar with the election effort, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.
“The president’s comments about the peaceful transfer of power, combined with his need for the ninth justice to carry out his election plans, puts Republican senators on the horns of a dilemma,” Mr. Ginsberg said.
“We have put this regime through our strategy on the horns of a dilemma,” Hook said.
Public policy remains on the horns of a dilemma in many countries.
The attempt to appeal to both remain and leave voters with a convoluted and equivocal policy turned out to be doomed, though Mr McDonnell is surely right to say that the composition of its support placed it on “the horns of a dilemma” that was all but impossible to resolve.
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