<span class="searchmatch">back</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">backs</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>) (idiomatic) (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) A very difficult situation with no beneficial options available...
see <span class="searchmatch">have</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> and retreat <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> doctrine in common law. go <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> (third-person singular simple present goes <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>, present...
discomfited; in a quandary. Synonym: up against it The IRS had me up against the wall. Translations go <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> <span class="searchmatch">have</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> snookered...
être dos au mur (figuratively) <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">have</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>, <span class="searchmatch">to</span> be up against <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>, <span class="searchmatch">to</span> be <span class="searchmatch">backed</span> into a corner, <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">have</span> no way out Synonyms: être au...
<span class="searchmatch">back</span> of <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> hand A slap. 1903, Harold MacGrath, chapter 13, in <span class="searchmatch">The</span> Grey Cloak: "And <span class="searchmatch">have</span> that boor D'Hérouville laugh? No! Let him give me <span class="searchmatch">the</span> chance...
Apartheid <span class="searchmatch">Wall</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> against <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> <span class="searchmatch">backs</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> balls-<span class="searchmatch">to</span>-<span class="searchmatch">the</span>-<span class="searchmatch">wall</span> balls <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> bang <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> head against a brick <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> beat...
hardback hark <span class="searchmatch">back</span> hark-<span class="searchmatch">back</span> harken <span class="searchmatch">back</span> hatchback <span class="searchmatch">have</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> <span class="searchmatch">have</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> <span class="searchmatch">have</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> ears pinned <span class="searchmatch">back</span> hearken <span class="searchmatch">back</span> highback hinge-<span class="searchmatch">back</span> tortoise...
consecutive with <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> facing somebody else's <span class="searchmatch">back</span> (physics) emerging in exactly opposite directions (house) <span class="searchmatch">having</span> a party <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> at <span class="searchmatch">the</span> rear <span class="searchmatch">The</span> translations...
Magazine, page 487: <span class="searchmatch">The</span> viaduct is joined <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> embankment by retaining <span class="searchmatch">walls</span>, which <span class="searchmatch">have</span> been strengthened since they were constructed by <span class="searchmatch">the</span> addition of stay...
up against a <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> (reflexive) <span class="searchmatch">to</span> lean (<span class="searchmatch">back</span>) s’adosser contre un mur ― <span class="searchmatch">to</span> lean (<span class="searchmatch">back</span>) against a <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> (reflexive) <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> up (put <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> against something)...