· "Walls closing in" is a fairly common expression meaning that the person's predicament is becoming increasingly dangerous. It is figurative, of course, but I don't know whether it is an allusion go … · I want to describe an action like the one depicted below. Here is what I've got so far: He was climbing between two opposite walls, with his hands on one and his feet on the other. · Hello, What do you call this tool often used in construction sites to verify if walls are straight... · The third structure was a kitschy, bright yellow, fairy-tale castle whose faux turrets flew colorful coat-of-arm banners on rooked fortress walls. Beyond the fake drawbridge, a man in a … · Stripped to the walls is just another way to say completely stripped. He ordered somebody to remove the furniture, the drapes, the rugs, etc. from the room. · Further to the interesting thread from earlier today on the different words used in each language (except perhaps English) for different types of wall, I have a further question. In English, we … · ATMs are, of course, literally holes in walls, into which the machines have been set. There is a (very good) restaurant a few miles from me called, gulp, "Hole in the Wall". It's in the far corner of a … · I have come across the phrase "hug the wall" in the following sentence in the description of the game "super hexagon": You should hold down an arrow key to hug the walls and remember that you … · Hallo Alle. :) Wand, Wall und Mauer. I understand them, in English, to mean such: Wand - a general wall that can be made of most anything. A most common way to refer to perhaps a wall inside … · Here’s what the Longman phrasal verbs dictionary says: be etched into/on If a picture, pattern, or writing is etched into something made of metal, glass, or stone, it is cut into it and forms a …
