Caught between two stools on 13:10 - Oct 11 with 202 views | spell_chekker | More like between a rock and a hard place | |
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Caught between two stools on 17:09 - Oct 11 with 186 views | Lala | Never heard it before and definitely somewhere I don’t want to be stuck 🥴 | |
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Caught between two stools on 17:11 - Oct 11 with 182 views | BringBackTheRedRoom | Used it many times, especially after a heavy Friday night on the beer followed by a Curry. | |
| ‘Where there is harmony, may we bring discord. Where there is truth, may we bring error. Where there is faith, may we bring doubt. And where there is hope, may we bring despair’ |
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Caught between two stools on 18:54 - Oct 13 with 160 views | spell_chekker | Between two stools: What's the meaning of the phrase 'Between two stools'? To be 'between two stools' is to fail, due to being unable to choose between two alternatives. What's the origin of the phrase 'Between two stools'? This is an old proverbial phrase. The full version is 'between two stools one falls to the ground'. It is first cited in John Gower's Confessio Amantis, 1390: "Thou farst [farest] as he betwen tuo stoles That wolde sitte and goth to grounde." The first recorded use in modern English is in Matthew Prior's comic poem Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind, 1717: Now which were wise, and which were fools? Poor Alma sits between two stools; The more she reads the more perplex'd, The comment ruining the text: Now fears, now hopes her doubtful fate. And now, like me, you know everything. Nothing to do with Friday night curries. | |
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