diff --git a/test-data/unit/check-literal.test b/test-data/unit/check-literal.test
index 0b779f57b615..8d25a58b9556 100644
--- a/test-data/unit/check-literal.test
+++ b/test-data/unit/check-literal.test
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ reveal_type(i2)  # N: Revealed type is "def (x: Literal['A|B'])"
 [builtins fixtures/tuple.pyi]
 [out]
 
+[case testLiteralWithBackslash-skip]
+-- This should be an xfail but since it fails on *only* Windows, not consistently, we must skip instead.
+-- TODO: someday this test should simply pass. Once https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/20884 is fixed.
+-- This test case is more to test mypy backslash handling than anything else
+from typing import Literal
+x: Literal[" \ "] = 1 # E: Incompatible types in assignment (expression has type "Literal[1]", variable has type "Literal[' \\ ']")
+
 [case testLiteralInvalidTypeComment]
 from typing import Literal
 def f(x):  # E: Syntax error in type comment "(A[) -> None"