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The expression originated in shipboard life during the age of sail when most European nations had a large number of sailors seeking to discover new countries. The devil here is a sharp spiked tool which would be used to poke at the captive to walk the plank. The captive walking the plank would have had the deep blue sea before him and a sailor with the devil or spike in his hand.
The essential meaning of the proverb is that when we have two choices of which we have to choose any one of them and both the choices are equally bad, we usually say that we are caught in a situation where we have to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea. This is similar to the political situation which sometimes exists where there are two candidates and both of them are equally bad but we have to choose one of them.
This kind of situations often happen in India where in the political election, all the candidates in the fray would be worse. The electorate will be forced to choose the lesser evil available among the list of candidates.
The essential meaning of the proverb is that when we have two choices of which we have to choose any one of them and both the choices are equally bad, we usually say that we are caught in a situation where we have to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea. This is similar to the political situation which sometimes exists where there are two candidates and both of them are equally bad but we have to choose one of them.
This kind of situations often happen in India where in the political election, all the candidates in the fray would be worse. The electorate will be forced to choose the lesser evil available among the list of candidates.
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