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What does on the horns of a dilemma mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word on the horns of a dilemma? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic) Facing a choice between two equally undesirable alternatives.
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We sometimes talk about being on the horns of a dilemma when we have a difficult judgement to make between two choices.
As the World Health Organization representative in Entebbe pointed out, many, many Ugandan wives are today caught on the horns of a dilemma.
Families whose daughters entered convents often found themselves on the horns of a dilemma.
Meanwhile, at the Erinsborough Clinic, the young hairless harpy, found herself on the horns of a dilemma, so to speak.
A person or a committee may be caught, it is said, on the horns of a dilemma.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, like many of its counterparts across the country, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.

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