have one's back to the wall
попасть в трудную ситуацию, занять оборонительную позицию; "быть припёртым к стене"
Пример использования идиомы have one's back to the wall:
He had his back to the wall because he was being blackmailed.
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Другие идиомы:
- have oneself something
- have (someone) over
- have one's cake and eat it too
- have the best of both worlds
- have had it up to here with (someone or something)
- have a run of bad luck
- have a brainwave
- have (something) up one's sleeve
- have one's nose in a book
- have none of (something)
- have it in for (someone)
- back to square one
- have (something) on
- have a hunch about (something)
- have one's nose to the grindstone