Zwickmühle

Etymology
Alteration of older, a compound of , in which ficken is used in the archaic sense of “to slide”. The alteration was without doubt driven by the need to avoid the vulgar verb. Formally it may be due to conflation with an unattested *Zwiemühle from, as well as to association with.

Noun

 * 1)  double mill
 * 2)  dilemma; Catch-22; quagmire; predicament; quandary position in which one will suffer great disadvantage however one reacts