英譯：
have one's back against/to the wall (亦寫成 with one's back against/to the wall 或 one's back is against/to the wall)
例句：
- With rising labour costs, industry has its back against the wall. (隨著勞動成本日益升高，企業不得不背水一戰)
- When we had our backs to the wall during the battle, everyone had to fight together. (當我們在該戰役中不得不背水一戰時，所有人都必須一起奮戰)
本文亦刊載在下列網址：
http://htmfiles.englishhome.org/idioms/idioms_chinese-1.htm