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.