| Russian | English |
| в конце концов | wound up (and had wound up by marrying a wealthy American woman – и в конце концов женился на богатой американке Mr. Wolf) |
| мне конец | they're done with me (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| на худой конец | at the very least (Mikhail11) |
| на худой конец | in the worst-case scenario (Anglophile) |