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| blind-alley; dead-lock; deadlock; impasse; stalemate; Serbonian bog; rat-trap; dead-end; stymie; hopeless predicament; hopeless situation; inextricable knot; dilemma; bring to bay; catch-22 situation (Anglophile); cul de sac; rat trap; stranglehold; have one's back against the wall (triumfov); up the creek without a paddle (Alexander Demidov); stand-off; gridlock (anahet); bay; catch-22 (To apply for a job, you need to have a few years of experience; but in order to gain experience you need to get a job. That's a catch-22.); hopelessness; circle of despair (nilius); dead end; dead lock; up a tree; frustration (Georgy Moiseenko) | |||
| desperate situation | |||
| cul-de-sac | |||
| no-win situation | |||
| cluster-fuck; catch-22 (связанное с наличием взаимоисключающих обстоятельств; idiom; An example includes: To apply for a job, you need to have a few years of experience; but in order to gain experience you need to get a job. Val_Ships); cluster-fuck (a disastrously mishandled situation or undertaking); dire straits (Val_Ships); Mexican stand-off (когда ни одна из конфликтующих сторон не может одержать верх, но при этом никто не готов идти на компромисс, боясь тем самым признать своё поражение; a Mexican stand-off is a situation in which neither of the people or groups in a conflict or dispute can win and neither wants to give in first Taras) | |||
| under | |||
| hopeless condition | |||
| labyrinth; blind alley | |||
| cul-de-sac station (Svetuly) | |||
| bind | |||
| blind gut; no go | |||
| dead lift | |||
| up the tree | |||
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| in a hole | |||
| безвыходное положение: 152 phrases in 19 subjects |
| American usage, not spelling | 4 |
| Business | 1 |
| Cliche / convention | 1 |
| Computer games | 1 |
| Diplomacy | 6 |
| Economy | 1 |
| Education | 1 |
| Figurative | 3 |
| Figure of speech | 1 |
| General | 68 |
| Idiomatic | 9 |
| Informal | 9 |
| Makarov | 37 |
| Mass media | 1 |
| Military | 2 |
| Nautical | 1 |
| Politics | 1 |
| Saying | 2 |
| Slang | 3 |