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| at a nonplus; in a cleft stick; nowhere; on a hiding to nothing; at a non placet; up a gum-tree; in a gridlock (Ремедиос_П); in a deadlock (Ремедиос_П); at a dead end (Andrey Truhachev); at bay | |||
| in a tight corner; in a bind | |||
| at an impasse (bigmaxus); in an impasse (bigmaxus) | |||
| dead in the water (Yeldar Azanbayev); in a rut (I have been doing the same job for 15 years. I think I am in a rut skatya); on a hiding to nowhere (VLZ_58) | |||
| up against something; against the wall (переносное выражение МДА) | |||
| up against it | |||
| в тупике: 474 phrases in 34 subjects |
| Advertising | 1 |
| American usage, not spelling | 1 |
| Armored vehicles | 2 |
| Astronautics | 1 |
| Australian | 4 |
| Banking | 1 |
| British usage, not spelling | 1 |
| Business | 5 |
| Computer games | 1 |
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| Contextual meaning | 1 |
| Diplomacy | 30 |
| Economy | 2 |
| Figurative | 9 |
| Foreign policy | 1 |
| General | 245 |
| Humorous / Jocular | 1 |
| Idiomatic | 13 |
| Informal | 6 |
| Information technology | 3 |
| Law | 2 |
| Literature | 1 |
| Makarov | 61 |
| Mass media | 30 |
| Military | 20 |
| Obsolete / dated | 3 |
| Oil / petroleum | 3 |
| Patents | 2 |
| Politics | 5 |
| Programming | 2 |
| Proverb | 6 |
| Psychology | 1 |
| Rhetoric | 1 |
| Slang | 8 |