How would I describe this in English? I have been searching over the internet but it's so hard for me to just figure out what word best to describe it. Here's a picture to describe them :
I'll use to it to narrate a drama. Thanks
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The usual English phrase would be "Back to back". As in "Richard stood back to back with the unknown Spartan and prepared to fight the shared enemies that surrounded them". This image is captioned as "Fighting back to back"
It's simply a literal description of the position of having their backs to each other. The opposite, when they're fighting against one another, would be "face to face". |
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The two are standing back to back. The literal position having evolved into a lot of figurative meanings from many fields. One of the more famous varieties is having someone's (or each other's) back, that generally describes people protecting each other in critical situations, going back to the defensive stance you sketched in your question. |
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