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- have back against the wall
have back against the wall
have your back against/to the wall
to have very serious problems which limit the ways in which you can act With rising labour costs, industry has its back to the wall. When his back was against the wall he became very aggressive.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Salamon | | - | Hungarian |
| Innokentiy | | - | Russian |
| Zackary | | ZAK-ə-ree | English |
| Talbot | | TAL-baht | English (Rare) |
| Geoffrey | | JEF-ree (English), zhaw-FRE (French) | English, French |
| Ceferino | | the-fe-REE-no (Spanish), se-fe-REE-no (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |