Describes a situation where something has two meanings to you, both of which warm your heart.
Cousin1: You know, you've become like a sister to me!
Cousin 2: Awww, I'm touched that you feel that way, plus I feel like I've gained a sister! It puts me between a pillow and a soft place!
Guy: Being with you makes me want to be a better person.
Gal: I'm between a pillow and a soft place hearing you say that.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)