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| plight (Баян); desperate situation; forlornness; hopelessness | |||
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| desperate straits (The company's closure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits. 4uzhoj); dire straits (в т.ч. финансовое; a state of extreme distress: After being shipwrecked on the island, we were in dire straits. • It might help you to know that my wife Kate and I have been through dire straits ourselves.) | |||
| отчаянное положение: 32 phrases in 4 subjects |
| General | 18 |
| Idiomatic | 6 |
| Makarov | 7 |
| Rhetoric | 1 |