torn between

torn between (people or things)

Equally compelled to choose between two different people, things, or actions. I'm torn between the red dress and the blue one—which do you think looks better on me? Her offer left me feeling torn between my commitments to my family and my desire to go out and see the world.
See also: between, torn
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

torn between (someone and someone else)

 and torn between something and something else
Fig. uncertain whether to choose one or the other. I don't know which to take. I'm torn between Fred and Alice. I'm torn between red and green.
See also: between, torn
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • torn between (people or things)
  • torn between, be
  • be torn between
  • torn
  • (all) torn up
  • torn up
  • cannot choose but
  • on one hand
  • on the one hand
  • OT1H
References in periodicals archive
Often, compounders have been torn between using silica to achieve performance benefits versus not using it because of performance problems.
Effective acceleration