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- Unable to attack
- No longer a threat
- Kept ___ (held off)
- Cornered, as a hunted animal
- Up a tree, say
- Trapped in a corner, say
- Prevented from attacking
- Out of striking distance
- Like a cornered wild animal
- Like a contained enemy
- How one may be held
- Hold ____
- Hold ___ (control)
- Hemmed in, perhaps
- Having no escape
- Good way to keep an enemy
- Good spot to keep an enemy
- Forced to turn and face the attackers
- Delayed from acting
- Bad way to be held
- How an angry dog should be kept
- Held off
- Cornered, as a wild animal
- Unable to flee
- In check
- How you might hold a vicious animal
- Without an out
- Unable to retreat, as an animal
- Held in check
- Like cornered prey
- A river protects British on the defensive
- A way you wouldn't want to be held
- Held back
- One way to be held
- On the defensive
- No longer dangerous
- In a position of no escape
- Backed into a corner
- With one's back to the wall
- Unable to retreat or escape