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| nowhere; have one's back to the wall (to be in a very difficult or desperate situation • He certainly has his back to the wall as he has lost his job and cannot find another one); stymied (matchin); in chancery; at bay; back-strapped; between the beetle and the block; between the devil and the deep sea; between the upper and the nether millstone; in a cleft stick; like a rat in a hole; between a rock and a hard place (alex); at a dead lift; on a hiding to nothing; with one's back to the wall; back strapped; at a dead end (Andrey Truhachev); between the devil and the deep blue sea (As NATO enters the third month of its air war in Yugoslavia, it finds itself between a rock and a hard place. The rock: Slobodan Milosevic. The hard place: The prospect of interminable bombing with its specter of mounting casualties. — Вступив в третий месяц воздушной войны в Югославии, НАТО оказалось между молотом и наковальней. Наковальня: Слободан Милошевич. Молот: перспектива бесконечных бомбардировок с угрозой всё возрастающих потерь. • You got him caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, for sure. — Ты его точно припёр к стенке. • He was caught between the devil and the deep sea. — Перед ним стоял нелегкий выбор.) | |||
| at the end of one's rope | |||
| in a bind (Yeldar Azanbayev) | |||
| in the hole | |||
| on a hiding to nowhere (менее распространённый вариант, чем "on a hiding to nothing" VLZ_58) | |||
up a tree; stuck (Unless you are absolutely stuck, without any options whatsoever, we don’t recommend using an emergency cat litter. Cat’s do not like drastic change and may resist using whatever method you provide. – Если вы находитесь в совершенно безвыходном положении и не осталось каких-то других вариантов ...  litter-boxes.com ART Vancouver); with one's hand in the till | |||
| in a hole; on one's beam-ends | |||
| dead in the water | |||
| with one's hand in the till | |||
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в безвыходном положении : 104 phrases in 12 subjects |
| American usage, not spelling | 3 |
| Computer games | 1 |
| Diplomacy | 4 |
| Education | 1 |
| Figurative | 3 |
| Figure of speech | 1 |
| General | 47 |
| Idiomatic | 8 |
| Informal | 6 |
| Makarov | 27 |
| Military | 2 |
| Slang | 1 |