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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAVE ONE'S BACK TO THE WALL»
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English/German Dictionary of Idioms: Supplement
to the ...
... steigen to have one's back to the wall Messer: das Messer sitzt jm. an der
Kehle • Rücken: mit dem Rücken zur/(an der) Wand stehen to have/to be
standing with/... one's back to the wall Rücken: mit dem Rücken zur Wand
kämpfen/... to fight ...
Professor Hans Schemann, 2013
... to fall off the back of a lorry M IS i ffl U (Your camera is too cheap I think it fell off
the back of a lorry. Vfifi?M m^m) • ) to get off someone's back T- WMiS.^ A, to
have a monkey on one's back JL MONKEY to have one's back to the wall PS ...
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
I can't work if you keep on criticizing me. get one's own back see own. go back on
set go. have one's back to the wall (formal) to be in a very difficult or desperate
situation: He certamlv has his back to the wall as he has lost his job and cannot ...
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Advanced Learner's Dictionary
... in secret, and deceitfully: Why did you go behind my back and never ask my
permission9 get off someone's back to stop bothering or annoying someone.
have one's back to the wall to be in a very difficult situation: We've really got our
backs ...
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English idioms for Spanish speakers
... nothing to do with 190 to have on 126 to have on one 196 to have on the tip of
one's tongue 295 to have one's back to the wall 313 to have one's back turned 15
to have one's feet on the ground 103 to have one's fill of 97 to have one's hands ...
Eugene Savaiano, Lynn W. Winget, 2007
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
ee own. go back on see go. have one's back to the wall to be in a very difficult or
desperate situation: He certainly has his back to the wall as he has lost his job
and cannot find another one. [From someone involved in a fight who can retreat
no ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
1 can't work if you keep on criticizing me. get one's own back see own. go back
on see go. have one's back to the wall to be in a very difficult or desperate
situation: He certainly has his back to the wall as he has lost his job and cannot
find ...
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Repase y escriba: Curso avanzado de gramatica y composicion
back(animal) lomo; (book or house) parte de atrás; (book [spine]) lomo; (chair)
respaldo; (check or document) dorso; (hand) dorso; (person) espalda(s); to have
one's back to the wall estar entre la espada y la pared; to have one's back turned
...
Maria Canteli Dominicis, John J. Reynolds, 2010
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
have one's back to the wall colloq to be in a very difficult or desperate situation. •
put one's back into something colloq to carry out (a task) with all one's energy. •
put someone's back up colloq to make them annoyed or resentful. • see the back
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Towards Better English
... to keep backbone firmness or source as withany long illness behind one's back
secretly to have one's back to the wall to be in a difficult and helpless situation;
cornered to turn ignore to back one's promise; to to destroy one's support system;
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