paint oneself into a corner

[paint oneself into a corner] {v. phr.}

To get oneself into a bad situation that is difficult or impossible to get out of.

* /By promising to both lower taxes and raise the defense budget, the president has painted himself into a corner./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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