impasse
stalemate
Mexican standoff
deadlock
standstill
dead end
death grip
at a stand
static
dead set
progressless
spin one's wheels
holding pattern
one-way ticket
inharmonious
dead-end
insoluble
back to the wall
truce
beatless
nonnegotiation
squirrel cage
stale
sticking point
anchorless
livelock
discord
unbudgeable
nondecision
inaccessible
couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
exercise in futility
progresslessness
discontinuity
unluckily
unmeetable
disconnect
unbattled
sitzkrieg
nonprogress
blind alley
monkeys might fly out of my butt
chanceless
bleakly
run adrift
noncontention
unpursuable
insecure
done
unactioned
hang-up
unsolvable
hamster wheel
cul-de-sac
unalliable
scrabbly
pactless
dull
thisclose
come to a stop
hopeless
nonstarter
standoff
barroom brawl
nonconcluding
recourseless
tread water
noncoordinated
uncoordinated
nonconflict
disabled
unfixity
chainlessness
that's the way life is
conflictlessness
insuperable
all quiet on the Western Front
uncoordination
unrecuperable
soft
catch
nonstability
unpersuasible
confuddled
what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
mobilism
void
outstanding
unprogressing
in vain
whistle for
in circles
not going anywhere