ладу нет

• СЛАДУ <-a> НЕТ с кем-чем coll

[VP; impers; prep obj: human or collect]

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⇒ it is impossible to cope (with s.o. or sth.):

- с Х-ом сладу нет{{}}≈ there is nothing I <he etc> can do with X;

- I <he etc> can't do anything with X;

- there is no dealing with X;

- X is impossible (unmanageable);

- person X is <gets> out of hand.

     ♦ ...Случилось одно небольшое происшествие в станционной парикмахерской. Решили подстричь ребят. А когда очередь дошла до Эрмека, тут поднялся такой крик и плач, что сладу не было никакого с мальчишкой (Айтматов 2). ...There had been one small incident in the local hairdressers. They had decided to get the children's hair cut. And when it had come to Ermek's turn, he set up such a great display of shouting and tears, that there was nothing they could do with the boy (2a).

     ♦ "А этот, - она снисходительно кивнула в сторону мальчишки... - совсем от рук отбился, никакого сладу с ним нет. Был бы отец, научил бы уму-разуму..."(Максимов 1). "But as for him," she gave a contemptuous nod in the direction of the boy...,"he's got completely out of hand, I can't do anything with him. If his father was here he'd knock some sense into him..." (1a).

     ♦ На террасе татарского дома, где мы спали на положенном на пол тюфяке, он [Мандельштам] долго заедал меня, что ему пришлось целый час искать меня, что я своей глупостью срываю ему работу, что со мной нет сладу и что я никогда не поумнею... (Мандельштам 2). On the veranda of the Tartar house (where we slept on a mattress laid on the floor) he [Mandelstam] went on at me a long time about how he had spent a whole hour trying to find me, about how hard I was making it for him to do his work-I had got quite out of hand and would never learn any sense (2a).