Scylla
Modern name Scilla. a rock in the Strait of Messina off the S coast of Italy.
Classical Mythology. a sea nymph who was transformed into a sea monster: later identified with the rock Scylla.: Compare Charybdis (def. 2).
Idioms about Scylla
between Scylla and Charybdis, between two equally perilous alternatives, neither of which can be passed without encountering and probably falling victim to the other.
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How to use Scylla in a sentence
“Bernanke was actually an exception,” says Richard Scylla, the eminent New York University financial historian.
Larry Summers’s Connection to Wall Street Should Surprise No One | Daniel Gross | September 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMeanwhile many ordinary Egyptians will find themselves back at square one, caught between Scylla and Charybdis.
Yes; and rather easy in avoiding Scylla to fall into Charybdis.
The Opened Shutters | Clara Louise BurnhamBut escaping Scylla she fell into Charybdis; her uncanny practices came to the ears of the authorities, and she was apprehended.
Irish Witchcraft and Demonology | St. John D. (St. John Drelincourt) SeymourIt is the part of fools to fall upon Scylla in striving to avoid Charybdis.
The ancients would have represented it as a sea-monster with open jaws, more terrible than Scylla and Charybdis.
The channel remains to-day just as it ever did, with Scylla and Charybdis presiding over their rocks as of old.
Andrew Marvell | Augustine Birrell
British Dictionary definitions for Scylla
/ (ˈsɪlə) /
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: Compare Charybdis
between Scylla and Charybdis in a predicament in which avoidance of either of two dangers means exposure to the other
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Other Idioms and Phrases with Scylla
see between a rock and a hard place (Scylla and Charybdis).
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