"con le spalle al muro" meaning in All languages combined

See con le spalle al muro on Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase [Italian]

Etymology: Literally, “with the shoulders to the wall”. Compare French être dos au mur. Etymology templates: {{m-g|with the shoulders to the wall}} “with the shoulders to the wall”, {{lit|with the shoulders to the wall}} Literally, “with the shoulders to the wall”, {{cog|fr|être dos au mur}} French être dos au mur Head templates: {{it-pos|prepositional phrase}} con le spalle al muro
  1. with one's back to the wall; up against the wall Synonyms: alle strette
    Sense id: en-con_le_spalle_al_muro-it-prep_phrase-aCWJY14J Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
     
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "with the shoulders to the wall"
      },
      "expansion": "“with the shoulders to the wall”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "with the shoulders to the wall"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “with the shoulders to the wall”",
      "name": "lit"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "être dos au mur"
      },
      "expansion": "French être dos au mur",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “with the shoulders to the wall”. Compare French être dos au mur.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "prepositional phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "con le spalle al muro",
      "name": "it-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "with one's back to the wall; up against the wall"
      ],
      "id": "en-con_le_spalle_al_muro-it-prep_phrase-aCWJY14J",
      "links": [
        [
          "back to the wall",
          "back to the wall"
        ],
        [
          "up against the wall",
          "up against the wall"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "alle strette"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "con le spalle al muro"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "with the shoulders to the wall"
      },
      "expansion": "“with the shoulders to the wall”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "with the shoulders to the wall"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “with the shoulders to the wall”",
      "name": "lit"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "être dos au mur"
      },
      "expansion": "French être dos au mur",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “with the shoulders to the wall”. Compare French être dos au mur.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "prepositional phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "con le spalle al muro",
      "name": "it-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Italian lemmas",
        "Italian multiword terms",
        "Italian prepositional phrases",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "with one's back to the wall; up against the wall"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "back to the wall",
          "back to the wall"
        ],
        [
          "up against the wall",
          "up against the wall"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "alle strette"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "con le spalle al muro"
}

Download raw JSONL data for con le spalle al muro meaning in All languages combined (1.1kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.