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Scylla and Charybdis Between Scylla and Charybdis

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Phraseologism: Scylla and Charybdis, Between Scylla and Charybdis.

Meaning: About a situation where the threat comes from two sides.

Origin: So the ancient Greeks called two monsters that lived on both sides of the Messinian Gulf and attacked ships passing by them. In Homer's Odyssey, Scylla and Charybdis are described as follows (translated by Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky): "Scylla ... incessantly barking, // With a piercing screech, like the squeal of a young puppy, // The monster announces the whole neighborhood. Approaching it // It's scary not to people alone, but also to immortals themselves... // Not a single seafarer could pass her unharmed // With an easy ship to pass: all the toothy mouths gaping, // She steals six people from the ship at once... // You will see another closely rock... / Scary the whole sea under that rock disturbs Charybdis, / Three times a day and three times a day spewing / Black moisture, do not dare to approach when it absorbs: / Poseidon himself will not deliver from certain death then ..." Analogue: between the hammer and the anvil.

Random phraseology:

Take on the zugunder.

Meaning:

To subject to punishment, to bring to account (obsolete).

Origin:

The origin of the phraseologism is associated with the times of German drill in the Russian army, and the zugunder is a distorted "zu hundert", which literally means "to a hundred" (strike) and is an order to punish the offender. However, there is another version, according to which zugunder is a distorted German "zu Hunden" (literally "to the dogs", in a swearing sense).

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