set one’s back against the wall

set one’s back against the wall负隅顽抗;以寡敌众：A wolf was driven into a corner by several hounds，it set its back against the wall.一只狼被几条猎犬逼到一个角落，负隅顽抗。

• maiden's delight
• decolonize
• not have the remotest idea / interest / intention etc
• psychopathic personality
• broking
• bring up
• spoilsport
• capital-output rate
• senate
• premie
• MSDENT
• anilin
• monotechnic
• air parcel
• gemologists
• fluoranthenes
• pique sb's interest, curiosity, etc.
• active center
• gazingly
• anthropophagus
• sexlessnesses
• catanet
• block multiplexer
• crappies
• brushbacks
• ramblingness
• acciaccaturas
• djins
• deaminization
• Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction
• khalkha, khalkha
• economics of scale
• britishnesses
• swaged
• rotary atomizer
• current account
• symmetrising
• cast aspersions on sth / sb
• thymol iodide
• Conodontiformes
• Actian
• size down
• (have) a mountain to climb
• head（或cut）someone/thing off at the pass
• ptomaines
• advocacy
• emit
• jury process
• tin openers
• mediatrix
• soldering iron
• scrape sth↔together/up
• wildcatted
• antiferromagnets
• liegemen
• piston valve
• discourse on / upon sth
• Amiidae
• pattings
• pander to
• beverage
• grounding outlet
• gratifier
• admit of
• electrooptical
• eddy resistance
• pleopod
• spig
• hyperbolae
• paralyse
• yarg
• sandfly fever
• habitan
• conveyable
• FK5
• plate-grid capacitance
• barracks lawyer
• Choctaw
• pneumatizes
• reason
• whizzed
• abbreviate
• BSEE
• rhizobial
• unpracticalness
• let someone in on/into
• Midwestern
• check bouncer
• notches
• get one's finger out
• Floridian
• the headlines
• be patient with
• undelete
• clindamycins
• naturalising
• industrio-
• benzyloxy-
• pneu.
• windingness