die Zwickmühle

1. 1

   double mill

2. 2

   dilemma; Catch-22; quagmire; predicament; quandary — position in which one will suffer great disadvantage however one reacts

3. 3

   A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks

Forms in lighter type are derived by the standard declension rules from the nominative, genitive and plural.