damned if one does and damned if one doesn't

• you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't

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damned if one does and damned if one doesn't (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) A situation where either choice results in a negative outcome; dilemma.

   If John leaves for New York to follow his career, his father will disinherit him. He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

   Damned if I do and damned if I don't.

   Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

• no-win situation
• catch-22
• inevitability
• between a rock and a hard place
• between Scylla and Charybdis
• between the devil and the deep sea
• pick your poison
• dilemma

• Ginsberg's theorem