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back to the wall
n. (context idiomatic English) (rfc-def) A very difficult situation with no beneficial option available for action.
Wikipedia
Back to the Wall
Back to the Wall is a recording by American folk and blues guitarist Peter Lang, released in 1978. It is out of print.
Back to the Wall (song)
"Back to the Wall" is a song by Australian rock group Divinyls. Released in 1988 as the lead single from their third studio album Temperamental, the song made the top forty on the Australian singles chart.
Usage examples of "back to the wall".
And by that time he was spun around with his back to the wall between the two windows, temporarily safe from any more careless exposure, and looking at Madeline Gray's white face with a quite incorrigible silent laughter in his eyes.