press someone to the wall
- press someone to the wall
push someone to the wall & 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.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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