How you might hold a vicious animal
Else clues• 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
• 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