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Morton's fork (iou)



Morton's fork noun phr. L19.
[John Morton (c 1420-1500), Archbishop of Canterbury and minister of Henry VII.]
The argument (used by Morton to extract loans) that the obviously rich must have money and the frugal must have savings; transf. a situation in which there are two choices or alternatives whose consequences are equally unpleasant.