selkä seinää vasten
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
selkä (“back”) + seinää (“a wall”) + vasten (“against”)
Phrase[edit]
- (idiomatic) back to the wall, back against the wall (very difficult situation with no beneficial options available for action)
- Kun hänet pantiin selkä seinää vasten, hänen oli pakko tunnustaa.
- When put back to the wall he had to confess.