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| lost cause; recipe for disaster (Enrica); forlorn hope; a fool's errand; it's no go; it's a mug's game; a bad job; bad work | |||
| losing battle; dead-end road; losing battle ("Провокации, давление, воинственная и оскорбительная риторика – это путь в никуда", – считает Путин) | |||
| loser case (Taras) | |||
| lost case (Shawty) | |||
| a cold coal to blow at (Bobrovska) | |||
| bad job | |||
| can of worms | |||
| безнадёжное дело: 33 phrases in 8 subjects |
| Australian | 1 |
| Bible | 1 |
| General | 17 |
| Humorous / Jocular | 1 |
| Idiomatic | 4 |
| Informal | 1 |
| Makarov | 7 |
| Rhetoric | 1 |