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单词 paint oneself into a corner
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paint oneself into a corner

Leave oneself no means of escape or room to manoeuvre.So the administration has done a pretty good job of painting itself into a corner where it has to act - and soon....
  • For all the exhilarating invention in these three books, however, there is also the sense of an author painting himself into a corner.
  • So I think they've kind of painted themselves into a corner here, and we're working with them to help get them out of that corner.
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