belligerent bookends

[Vilena33]

Vsem privet!
Pishu latinitsej, tak kak v Dubai russkoj klaviatury net.
Ne mogu perevesti predlogenie, pros''ba pomoch:
They framed the thin frightened man like belligerent bookends.

Nemnogo konteksta:
The man was tall and thin and he looked frightened. The two Homicide detectives were burly and broad and they looked self-assured. They framed the thin frightened man like belligerent bookends.

Spasibo.

[concept]

они словно заключили тощего перепуганного мужчину во враждебный переплет

[sledopyt]

приперли с двух сторон