Things might have been different, but the world is a hard place.

New York is not a hard place to get around in.

Talk about being between a rock and a hard place.

Just trying to help you out of your rock and hard place.

Everything here is between a rock and a hard place.

They find themselves between a rock and a hard place.

Schools are caught between a rock and a hard place.

Or would I be a hard place in the forest floor?

It has also continued to be a hard place to understand.

You are caught between a rock and a hard place, as they say.