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| have one's back to the wall; come unstuck; find oneself in the wrong boat; get into difficulties; fall between two stools (Anglophile); mire; bunker; be hard put to it | |||
| find oneself in a tight corner | |||
| tie oneself up in knots; be on thin ice; be in a bind; find oneself in a sticky situation | |||
| find oneself down and out (Taras) | |||
| be on one's beam ends (VLZ_58); find oneself on a sticky wicket (‘Put it up to Jeeves' is so much the slogan in my circle of acquaintance that it might be that even Sir Roderick Glossop, finding himself on a sticky wicket, had decided to place his affairs in his hands. Jeeves is like Sherlock Holmes. The highest in the land come to him with their problems. (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) | |||
| stick in the mire; be in the mire; be on one's beam ends; find oneself in difficulties; find oneself in the mire | |||
| оказаться в затруднительном положении: 8 phrases in 3 subjects |
| General | 2 |
| Idiomatic | 3 |
| Makarov | 3 |