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Dilemma
A difficulty in choosing between options

Nelly's dilemma was whether to leave his girlfirend for the new girl he was in love with, which has a child, or to just stay with his girlfriend.
By Cybil
Dilemma
When your Mother-in-Law is driving your brand new Mercedes off a cliff.

Nelly's dilemma was whether to leave his girlfirend for the new girl he was in love with, which has a child, or to just stay with his girlfriend.
By Adi
Dilemma
A difficult decision to chose one of two options

A student asks his English teacher if he can give him a definiton of a dilemma

The teacher tells him; Imagine you’re on a bed and one one side is a naked super hot chick and on the other side is a naked gay dude, who’s side are u turning to?
By Greta
Hedgehog's Dilemma
The phrase hedgehog's dilemma refers to the notion that:

(1) The closer two beings come to one another in a relationship, the more likely it might be for them to inflict psychological pain on each other
(2) Yet if they remain apart, they each might feel the roughly-equivalent (psychological) pain of loneliness.

This notion comes from the conjecture that hedgehogs, with sharp spines on their backs, might hurt each other if they get too close. It is a character trait believed to be possessed by some individuals, in real life as well as in works of fiction, sometimes causing anti-social behaviours, often allegedly caused by an unpleasant past experience of intimate relationships. A person who suffers from the hedgehog's dilemma will usually avoid becoming too close or involved with someone, due to fear of another similar, possibly painful, experience, such as they had experienced in the past.

Porcupines are a better example of the hedgehog's dilemma due to their commonly known dangerously sharp spines. As you can imagine, getting too close to them will provoke them and might force a few spines in you in self defense.
By Natasha
Ultimate Dilemma
The state a person finds themselves in when they have diarrhea and have to throw up at the same time.

Ted had eaten a bad batch of clams which landed him in the bathroom, when he was faced with the "ultimate dilemma."

Does he get off the toilet and regurgitate in it, and take the chance on soiling himself from additional diarrhea, or does he try to reach for the bathtub while on the toilet, and chance throwing up all over his clothes?
By Micki
Hilmarsson's Dilemma
When you are invited to more than one party on the same night and you don't know which party to attend.

Bob is invited to Corey's birthday party and to Eddie's graduation party tonight. Bob is facing a true Hilmarsson's Dilemma.
By Livvy
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
When a person has been arrested and during their interrogation is wondering what to say based on their awareness of what the other witnesses may be saying.

So as Ambassador Gordon Sondland got some distance from his statements made weeks ago under oath, he began to experience the true depth and extent of the prisoner’s dilemma which of course led him to finally correct his testimony.
By Janine
Directioner Dilemma
A dilemma that only a Directioner faces because half of him/her desperately wants 1D to be back together but the other half wants them to carry on with their solo career because they were unhappy when they were together as a band.

Directioner 1: Do you want the boys to be back together?
Directioner 2: Yes but I also want them to be happy. Ugh Directioner Dilemma!
By Elsy
The Stoner's Dilemma
The dilemma in which a stoner finds him or herself having to choose between staying reclined/lying/sitting comfortably and getting up to acquire food/drink/other amenities.

Can also be "The Drinker's Dilemma"

"damn the stoner's dilemma! i want cheetos, but they're all the way in the kitchen!"
or
"Dude, I had a total drinkers dilemma yesterday. I sat in my bed for ten minutes trying to decide if I should go get some food to feed my drunchies."
By Arabelle
Expert's Dilemma
A problem faced by a person with specialized expertise in any area, in which the implications of the opinion are unpopular and likely to be rejected by those who need that expertise. For example, economists may be likely to know that, in some cases, a "market solution" is inherently impossible, but proposing an alternative is an exercise not merely in futility, but career suicide among those who employ economists. It arises because the expert knows more about the field than her employers.

The statistician was asked by his boss to make a case for risk homeostasis, but knowing better, he faced an expert's dilemma: telling the truth would get him tarred as a 'socialist.'
By Felita