Subject | Russian | English |
idiom. | при неблагоприятном раскладе | if it comes to the crunch (Andrey Truhachev) |
idiom. | при неблагоприятном раскладе | when the going gets rough (Andrey Truhachev) |
idiom. | при неблагоприятном раскладе | when the going gets tough (Andrey Truhachev) |
idiom. | при неблагоприятном раскладе | when it comes to the crunch (Andrey Truhachev) |
idiom. | при неблагоприятном раскладе | when push comes to shove (Andrey Truhachev) |
idiom. | при неблагоприятном раскладе | when the crunch comes (Andrey Truhachev) |
Игорь Миг | при неблагоприятном раскладе | at the extreme |
gen. | при самом неблагоприятном раскладе | in a worst-case scenario (Q. Hi all, does it matter whether we say "in a worst-case scenario" or "in the worst-case scenario"? The following example sentence comes from Oxford Dictionary: "In the worst-case scenario, the antagonism will get out of control and will paralyze the party." The following is from Cambridge Dictionary: "The study concludes that in a worst-case scenario there might be 80,000 cases of the disease." А. In most cases, there will be only one worst-case scenario, in which case the applies. However, your example refers to a study which makes a projection for the future. This is complicated and could involve different ways of making the calculation and different assumptions used in the calculation. In this case, there could be more than one worst-case scenario. wordreference.com Alexander Demidov) |