write oneself into a corner
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To reach a narrative point in which the story one is writing gets stuck, leaving no good or satisfactory alternative or resolution.
Example Sentences
- "When Rudyard Kipling wrote the words, “That belongs to another story,” he conferred upon scribbling mankind an inestimabie blessing. How we ever got along without the accommodating little sentence, I don't know, but it has evidently come to stay. You write yourself “into a corner,” and see no way out of it except to tear up the sheet and begin over, when–Presto! “That belongs to another story” pops into your head and your awkward sentence is gracefully capped."
Inflected Forms
writes oneself into a corner (present, singular)
writing oneself into a corner (participle, present)
writed oneself into a corner (participle, past)
writed oneself into a corner (past)