When Anglophones land in France, we inherit the beauty and poetry of the French language... and the strange and creative world of French idioms.
Today’s featured idiom is:
Être au pied du mur = to be cornered.
The expression comes from the 16th century when someone was backed up against an unscalable wall. It means to be stuck... to be unable to overcome a difficulty.
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