between a rock and a hard place, or between...

[asakiyume]

Scylla and Charybdis

the devil and the deep blue sea

... any others?

In my personal experience, it's Between the Busy Road and the Poison Ivy



That dappled sidewalk may look inviting, but if you step from the curb YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF TRUCKS AND CARS and if you brush against the foliage on the right, you will have itchy ankles: it's poison ivy.

Two people can't walk abreast very easily there. One person could practice their balancing on the pale curb, or the other could practice elf-walking lightly over the top of the poison ivy like Legolas on snow, but...

... would you like another moonflower?

Comments

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Moonflowers are always good.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Why does poison ivy have to be such a pretty green?

That moonflower is lovely.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the moonflower!
I don't know any other between phrases.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Between tongue and teeth, between tendon and muscle, between lichen and stone. A different sort of betweenness, of course.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Yet another borderland to traverse with care. So much danger in the borderlands, always.