a female sea monster who devoured sailors when they tried to navigate the narrow channel between her cave and the whirlpool Charybdis. In later legend Scylla was a dangerous rock, located on the Italian side of the Strait of Messina.
Phrases
between Scylla and Charybdis
/kəˈribdis/ used to refer to a situation involving two dangers in which an attempt to avoid one increases the risk from the other.
