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Terms for subject General containing при всём желании | all forms | exact matches only | in specified order only
| Russian | English |
| даже при всём желании | not by any stretch of the imagination (used for saying that you think something cannot be true or possible no matter how hard you try to imagine it It’s not a great work of cinema by any stretch of the imagination. MED Alexander Demidov) |
| при всём желании | much as one would like to (Anglophile) |
| при всём желании | with the best will in the world (Anglophile) |
| при всём желании | with all the will in the world (Conan Doyle – The Sign of the Four malt1640) |
| + verb при всём желании | cannot possibly (Баян) |
| при всём желании | by no stretch of the imagination (as much as anyone could imagine; as much as is imaginable. (Often negative.) I don't see how anyone by any stretch of the imagination could fail to understand what my last sentence meant. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 Alexander Demidov) |
| при всём желании не испортишь | actor-proof (о роли, пьесе) |
| + verb при всём желании не мочь + глагол в неопредел. форме | cannot possibly (вариант для разговорного регистра, сфера употребления английской конструкции им не ограничена Баян) |
| при всём моём желании | much as I would like to |