Meaning of BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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When you are between a rock and a hard place
it means that you have two really big problems
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in your life and you have to figure out a
way to solve both of them but they're both
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such huge problems you're not sure how you're
going to get past them.
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So let's come up with an example.
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Maybe your car is broken and you need to fix
your car and it's going to be $2000 to fix
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it, and you don't have enough money in the
bank.
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So you have that one problem.
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You have the problem of your car needing to
be fixed and then at the same time you lose
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your job.
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You get fired from your job.
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So you don't have any money coming in anymore.
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So on one side you have a very expensive car
repair, and on the other side you have the
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problem of losing your job.
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You would be between a rock and a hard place.
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