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{{about|the idiom|other uses|Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (disambiguation)}}{{refimprove|date=September 2009}}{{dictdef}}{{wiktionary}}"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"). 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." See also- Between Scylla and Charybdis
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