Related Clues:

• In a difficult situation
• Powerless to progress
• Bad way to be held
• Up a tree
• In hot water
• Held in check
• No longer dangerous
• Without an out
• No longer a threat
• Kept in check
• In a position of no escape
• Screwed
• Unable to retreat, as an animal
• Backed into a corner
• Kept ___ (held off)