back to the wall 的定义
- Also, back against the wall. In a hard-pressed situation; also, without any way of escape. For example, In the closing few minutes, our team had its back to the wall but continued to fight gallantly, or The bank has him with his back to the wall; he'll have to pay up now. This term was used originally for a military force that is making a last stand. [First half of 1500s]
back to the wall 近义词
等同于 desperate
back to the wall 的近义词 29 个
- despondent
- forlorn
- futile
- sad
- vain
- downcast
- goner
- at end of one's rope
- can't win
- dead duck
- despairing
- desponding
- gone
- hard up
- in the soup
- in the toilet
- inconsolable
- irrecoverable
- irremediable
- irretrievable
- no-chance
- no-way
- no-win
- running out of time
- sunk
- up against it
- up the creek
- useless
- wretched
back to the wall 的反义词 12 个
更多back to the wall例句
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- Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.
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- The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
- I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
- Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
- The boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.
- With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
- Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.