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
Mladen	MLAH-den (Croatian, Serbian)	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Cornelia	[kɔ:'ni:ljə]
Tyrone	tie-RON	English
Young-Sook	yung-sook	Korean
Cindi	SIN-dee	English
Travis	['trævis]