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Scylla and Charybdis

Scylla and Charybdis

pronunciation:: sI l nd k rIb dihs

part of speech:	noun
definition:	in Homer's Odyssey, two monsters threatening to sailors, later identified as a rock and a whirlpool in the sea off the coast of Sicily.

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