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Question: If you're caught!.!.!?
!.!.!.between a rock and a hard place, is the rock not hard!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
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Doesn't this mean that you are stuck between two hard places!? I'm a bit lost!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
S origin!. The earliest known printed reference is Dialect Notes V, 1921:
"To be between a rock and a hard place, !.!.to be bankrupt!. Common in Arizona in recent panics; sporadic in California!."
The 'recent panics' referred to in that citation are undoubtedly the events surrounding the Bisbee deportations of 1917!. In Bisbee, Arizona, in the early years of the 20th century, a dispute between copper mining companies and mineworkers developed!. In 1917, the workers, some of whom had organized in labour unions, approached the company management with a list of demands for better pay and conditions!. These were refused and subsequently many workers at the Bisbee mines were forcibly deported to New Mexico!.
It's tempting to surmise, given that the mineworkers were faced with a choice between harsh and underpaid work at the rock-face on the one hand and unemployment and poverty on the other, that this is the source of the phrase!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
"To be between a rock and a hard place, !.!.to be bankrupt!. Common in Arizona in recent panics; sporadic in California!."
The 'recent panics' referred to in that citation are undoubtedly the events surrounding the Bisbee deportations of 1917!. In Bisbee, Arizona, in the early years of the 20th century, a dispute between copper mining companies and mineworkers developed!. In 1917, the workers, some of whom had organized in labour unions, approached the company management with a list of demands for better pay and conditions!. These were refused and subsequently many workers at the Bisbee mines were forcibly deported to New Mexico!.
It's tempting to surmise, given that the mineworkers were faced with a choice between harsh and underpaid work at the rock-face on the one hand and unemployment and poverty on the other, that this is the source of the phrase!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
It's six of one & half a dozen of the other really, Mick or Mike!.
Damned if you do & damned if you don't!. Can't live with em can't live without em!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Damned if you do & damned if you don't!. Can't live with em can't live without em!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Life is hard!. Then you die!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Oh, it's hard!. Don't let it fool ya!.!.!.it's a practicing car saleman!.
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it is, its just a more defined, the 'hard place' could be anything!.!.!.!.!. anything hard of courseWww@Enter-QA@Com
the rock may be a different level of hard!.!.!. like bumpy hard!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
The rock is hard, but the hard place is harder!. =]Www@Enter-QA@Com
That's the point of the saying!. Both sides are hard!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
may be abnormally!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
nice the rock is hard as wellWww@Enter-QA@Com
rock hard can mean many things :)Www@Enter-QA@Com
get chuck norris to kick the rock's head offWww@Enter-QA@Com
maybe it's a squeshy rock!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Some rocks were soft!Www@Enter-QA@Com
Ok you better have a big hammerWww@Enter-QA@Com
So are you saying I'm stuck!? Because they are both hard!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
ha ha funny!.!.!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
good point!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
haha idk i guess it could have like moss on it lolWww@Enter-QA@Com
good one, never really thought about it!Www@Enter-QA@Com