paint oneself into a corner

paint oneself into a corner leave oneself no means of escape or room to manoeuvre 使自己陷入困境。

• rack one's wits
• tenant-peasant
• hedonistically
• phenotypic mixing
• fishpot
• vapourer
• haughtinesses
• amphibolite facies
• scrimpy
• jeoparder
• revocableness
• Triennale
• aerophilatelists
• East African sleeping sickness
• steering gear
• hovering ceiling
• touchbacks
• underfoot
• crossbars
• synthases
• arched
• be no mean performer / player etc
• up a gum tree
• octillionth
• tourist trap
• AIDS belt
• inflammatories
• scokes
• straight off（或out）
• hypertense
• matriclinous
• uher
• rim saw
• bousoukia
• sharpenest
• put in hand
• appanage
• like herrings in a barrel
• lady of frying-pan
• racialists
• approachability
• languish of
• Bartlett, Josiah
• tumbler gear
• sick-in
• steal a glance/look at
• 2,4,6,-collidine
• glugging
• ginger blotch
• slings and arrows
• penny press
• scaremongerer
• NREM sleep
• confused sea
• archegonia
• cushites
• vailer
• underlings
• tall, dark, and handsome
• ordinal number
• brain-damaged
• concrete pump
• cystocarcinoma
• orogene
• scissortails
• come a long way
• technocracies
• newbuilding
• by the name of
• zenanas
• mol.wt.
• semibasement
• cook-general
• vealy
• trochoidal
• do the necessary
• lysergides
• excise
• radioimmunoassays
• cartilaginous
• scratchably
• singulars
• periodic
• political commissar
• suc.
• parriest
• trilobal
• dot-coms
• bounce along
• a thorny question / problem / issue etc
• get off lightly
• have（或 keep） one's finger on the pulse
• scampered
• source address
• new chums
• fetch a pump
• The deuce you he can
• antismoking
• virus busting
• Bhamo