الإنجليزية - التركية
تعريف charybdis في الإنجليزية التركية القاموس.
- Sicilya sahiline yakın ve klasik mitolojide kadın canavar olarak şahıslandırılan tehlikeli bir girdap
- between Scylla and Charybdis iki ateş arasında
الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
تعريف charybdis في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
- A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
- A personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster
- A general term for any dangerous whirlpool
Lo! the wave that for ever devours the wave/Casts roaringly up the charybdis again.
- scylla and Charybdis
- {i} (Greek Mythology) whirlpool that devours ships off the coast of Sicily located across from the cave of Scylla and personified as a female monster
- In Greek mythology, a personification of the above whirlpool as a female monster
- (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla
- It is personified as a female monster
- between Scylla and Charybdis
- Similar in meaning to between a rock and a hard place
- Scylla and Charybdis
- between Scylla and Charybdis in a situation where you have to choose between two possible actions, but both are dangerous or unpleasant. The phrase comes from the ancient Greek stories of Scylla, a monster, and Charybdis, a whirlpool (=water that spins around and pulls things down into it) , that killed sailors in the sea between Italy and Sicily. People sometimes also use the phrase "between a rock and a hard place" to mean the same thing. In Greek mythology, two monsters that guarded the narrow passage through which Odysseus had to sail in his wanderings. These waters are now identified with the Strait of Messina. On one shore was Scylla, a monster with six snaky heads, who reached out of her cave to seize and devour six of Odysseus' companions. On the opposite shore was Charybdis, the personification of a whirlpool, who drank down and belched forth the waters three times a day. The shipwrecked Odysseus saved himself by clinging to a tree on the shore until his raft floated to the surface