PHRASES: BETWEEN THE BEETLE AND THE BLOCK = in a parlous state; BETWEEN THE CUP AND THE LIP = as near as a TOUCHER (q.v.); BETWEEN THE DESERT AND THE DEAD (or DEEP BLUE) SEA = at one’s last resource, CORNERED (q.v.); BETWEEN THE BARK AND THE WOOD (or TREE) See TREE; BETWEEN YOU AND ME AND THE BEDPOST, see BEDPOST; BETWEEN HAY AND GRASS = neither one thing nor another: e.g., manhood and boyhood, two stages of existence, of progress, age, development, etc.; BETWEEN TWO DAYS = night-time.
1836. R. H. DANA, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, xxviii. Some rascally deed sent him off BETWEEN TWO DAYS with men on horseback, dogs, and Indians in full cry after him.
