<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 <span class="searchmatch">with</span> no beneficial options available...
have <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...
Literally, “<span class="searchmatch">with</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> shoulders <span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>”. Compare French être dos au mur. con le spalle al muro <span class="searchmatch">with</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>; up against <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span> Synonym:...
angels) A form of exercise to improve posture and strengthen the back, neck and shoulder muscles, performed while keeping <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> against <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>....
quadriceps muscles, involving forming two right angles with the body, <span class="searchmatch">one</span> at <span class="searchmatch">the</span> hips and <span class="searchmatch">one</span> at <span class="searchmatch">the</span> knees, <span class="searchmatch">with</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> against a <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>. air chair...
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> have <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...
turned <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span>) (intransitive) <span class="searchmatch">To</span> cease paying attention. As soon as I turned my <span class="searchmatch">back</span>, he started writing on <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wall</span>. (intransitive, figuratively) <span class="searchmatch">To</span> forsake...
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...
<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 have that boor D'Hérouville laugh? No! Let him give me <span class="searchmatch">the</span> chance...
obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham <span class="searchmatch">back</span>-<span class="searchmatch">to</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> Premier League wins for <span class="searchmatch">the</span> first time in 14 months. <span class="searchmatch">With</span> <span class="searchmatch">one's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> facing that of somebody else. (physics...