push to the wall

push someone to the wall

and press someone to the wall

to force someone into a position where there is only one choice to make; to put someone in a defensive position. There was little else I could do. They pushed me to the wall.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Immaculada	-	Catalan
Marija	-	Croatian, Slovene, Serbian, Macedonian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Herleifr	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Aurea	-	Late Roman
PÁLa	POW-lah	Icelandic
Jan (1)	YAHN (Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, German)	Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Polish, Slovene, German, Catalan