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have your back to/against the wall
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(Definition of have your back to/against the wall from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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have verb (POSSESS)
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have verb (RECEIVE/ALLOW)
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have verb (SEX)
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have verb (SUFFER)
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have your (fair) share of sth idiom
- have your back to/against the wall idiom
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have your business, sensible, etc. head on idiom
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have your cake and eat it idiom
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have your day in court idiom
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have your eye on sth idiom
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have your finger on the trigger idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be in the soup idiom
- be riding for a fall idiom
- be up against it idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- be/get bogged down phrasal verb
- beleaguered adjective
- difficulty noun
- hard-pressed adjective
- have a thin time (of it) idiom
- have fun and games idiom
- in a stew idiom
- it never rains but it pours idiom
- pushed adjective
- rocky road idiom
- stranded adjective
- stuck adjective
- the heat is on idiom
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