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Scylla

Greek myth a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster believed to drown sailors navigating the Strait of Messina. She was identified with a rock off the Italian coast
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Scylla

half beautiful maiden, half hideous dog. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey; Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]

Scylla

and Charybdis two equally dangerous alternatives. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey, Espy, 41]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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"We were told: 'Scylla, see what you can do there.' We went along and we knocked them out and the big cheers came up.
After 10 days of training, Robert was off to Scapa Flow to board the Scylla, which was built in Greenock.
Meanwhile, Boris Johnson's well-remunerated scribblings in The Telegraph have this week included references to Scylla and Charybdis, Moses and Aaron, cattle murrain and things being "pre-Cambrian".
Till our judicial system accepts its responsibility the choice between Charybdis and Scylla will haunt us.
[beaucoup moins que] Eeviter Charybde pour tomber en Scylla ![beaucoup plus grand que], disait-on dans l'Antiquite.
Sheikh Mohammed welcomed again the recent Sochi agreement, sponsored by the guarantor states, to stop the bloodshed of hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians in the Syrian province of Idlib, who are trapped between the Scylla of the military conflict and the Charybdis of terrorist groups, stressing that the effectiveness of any agreement is subject to honouring it and to ensuring its actual implementation.
Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Army of Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony, 1733-1763; Part I: Staff and Cavalry
She learns to make potions and outsmarts the creature Scylla to allow Daedalus to cross safely.
Otherwise, it is expected that the newly minted civilian will, like the rest of us, navigate the Scylla and Charybdis of government bureaucracy and just naturally know where to go and when to be there.
Over the course of 20 years, he encounters monsters such as Circe, Scylla, and the Sirens as he attempts to return home to his beloved wife Penelope.
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