ATBAY

A way you wouldn't want to be held

• Backed into a corner

• Bad way to be held

• Bottled up

• Checked

• Cornered

• Cornered, as a hunted animal

• Cornered, as a wild animal

• Cornered: 2 wds.

• Forced to turn and fight

• Having no escape

• Held back

• Held in check

• Held off

• Hemmed in, perhaps

• Hold ___

• How a dog might hold you

• How one may be held

• How you might hold a vicious animal

• In a position of no escape

• In a powerless situation

• In check

• Kept ___ (held off)

• Like a rat in a trap

• No longer a threat

• No longer dangerous

• On the defensive

• One way to be held

• Out of striking distance

• Powerless

• Thwarted

• Trapped

• Trapped in a corner: 2 wds.

• Unable to attack

• Unable to flee

• Unable to retreat

• Unable to retreat, as an animal

• Under control

• Unsatisfied

• Up a tree

• With one's back to the wall

• Without an out