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in a dilemma
collocation
in a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two different things you could do:
I'm in dilemma. Should I tell him and betray my friend's trust, or let him continue to believe that everything is fine?
This puts financial institutions in a very considerable dilemma.
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dilemma
She's in a dilemma because she feels she would lose out if she tried to transfer her pension fund elsewhere.
The advice will leave many parents in a dilemma over whether to buy their children a mobile phone.
Sometimes people are caught in a dilemma about whether to help the police or not.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Experiencing difficulties
be
be (caught) between a rock and a hard placeidiom
be climbing the wallsidiom
be for the high jumpidiom
be/come up against a brick wallidiom
fall into something
flounder
frying pan
fumble
fun
jungle
leg
on a razor edgeidiom
out of the frying pan into the fireidiom
pickle
pressed
prob
rocky
sticky
strand
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