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Lionel Shriver

Is ‘Mini Mike’ a growing threat to Trump?

24 January 2020

10:00 PM

24 January 2020

10:00 PM

Should Bernie Sanders become the Democratic presidential nominee, expect the media to overuse these sprightly English expressions: ‘between a rock and a hard place’, ‘between the devil and the deep blue sea’, ‘on the horns of a dilemma’ and ‘Morton’s fork’. After all, you wouldn’t call a Trump vs Sanders race a ‘Hobson’s choice’, which means ‘no choice’.

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