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词组 up against the wall
释义 up against the wall

helpless, dominated by another; used for expressing power over others US
A catch-phrase of the politically active in the US 1960s, echoing a police command.
  • President Johnson’s a fool anyway. The old fool’s up against the wall. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 67, 1968
  • The deans found themselves up against the wall for the first time in Amerika. They didn’t dig it. — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 22, 1970
  • — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 118, 1970
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