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blind-alley; dead-lock; deadlock; impasse; stalemate; Serbonian bog; rat-trap; dead-end; stymie; hopeless predicament; hopeless situation; inextricable knot; dilemma; bring to bay; catch-22 situation (Anglophile); cul de sac; rat trap; stranglehold; have one's back against the wall (triumfov); up the creek without a paddle (Alexander Demidov); stand-off; gridlock (anahet); bay; catch-22 (To apply for a job, you need to have a few years of experience; but in order to gain experience you need to get a job. That's a catch-22.); hopelessness; circle of despair (nilius); dead end; dead lock; up a tree; frustration (Georgy Moiseenko) | |||
desperate situation | |||
cul-de-sac | |||
no-win situation | |||
cluster-fuck; catch-22 (связанное с наличием взаимоисключающих обстоятельств; idiom; An example includes: To apply for a job, you need to have a few years of experience; but in order to gain experience you need to get a job. Val_Ships); cluster-fuck (a disastrously mishandled situation or undertaking); dire straits (Val_Ships); Mexican stand-off (когда ни одна из конфликтующих сторон не может одержать верх, но при этом никто не готов идти на компромисс, боясь тем самым признать своё поражение; a Mexican stand-off is a situation in which neither of the people or groups in a conflict or dispute can win and neither wants to give in first Taras) | |||
under | |||
hopeless condition | |||
labyrinth; blind alley | |||
cul-de-sac station (Svetuly) | |||
bind | |||
blind gut; no go | |||
dead lift | |||
up the tree | |||
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in a hole |
безвыходное положение : 153 phrases in 19 subjects |
American usage, not spelling | 4 |
Business | 1 |
Cliche / convention | 1 |
Computer games | 1 |
Diplomacy | 6 |
Economics | 1 |
Education | 1 |
Figurative | 3 |
Figure of speech | 1 |
General | 69 |
Idiomatic | 9 |
Informal | 9 |
Makarov | 37 |
Mass media | 1 |
Military | 2 |
Nautical | 1 |
Politics | 1 |
Saying | 2 |
Slang | 3 |