"She painted herself into a corner where no one could help her."

Though, in some sense, the government had painted itself into a corner.

She wouldn't let herself get painted into a corner by him.

In other words, he had painted the war into the background.

Rather, he said, the party has allowed itself to be painted into a political corner.

"We are really painting them into a box here," he said.

The federal government has painted itself into a corner on this issue, Judge, and you know it.

Always try to paint from a dry area into a wet one.

His face had been painted into a picture of misery.

On the spot, he painted his wife into the picture before him for the Queen.