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Seerfish Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

"talk into a corner"

"Turkey's voluble prime minister has talked himself into a corner on Syria"

what does "talk into a corner" mean?

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— Khoff

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  • To "talk yourself into a corner" would mean to say things that leave you a position that is hard or impossible to retreat from.
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This is a variation of the phrase "paint yourself into a corner.", which describes a situation like this:
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