in a corner

English

Prepositional phrase

in a corner

  1. Placed in a difficult or awkward situation.
    • 2020 May 15, Robert Frost, Delphi Complete Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series)‎, Delphi Classics, →ISBN, →OCLC:
      […] Paul almost had poor Keeper in a corner
      Where he would have to quit his politics
      Or be a Christian. Paul, I wish you'd say
      That over. I shall have to retail it
      To some of Keeper's friends that come in here,
      A bunch of smalltime revolutionaries. […]
  2. (dated) secretly; covertly
    something done in a corner
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