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English term or phrase:
Ajuda em frase - they slid down a slippery slope
Portuguese translation:
entraram em terreno escorregadio
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Teresa Cristina Felix de Sousa
Jun 14, 2009 20:09
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Teresa Cristina Felix de Sousa
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Ajuda em frase - they slid down a slippery slope
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From everything we know, it seems likely that under ordinary circumstances the residents of Sonderburg would have continued to get along, to live and let live. But under the Nazis, non-Jews became Bystanders who did what sometimes happens in these cases: they slid down a slippery slope.
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colocaram as barbas de molho?
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colocaram as barbas de molho?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Portugal
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Portugal
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida 
30+ years translating EU documents
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English term (edited):
they slid down a slippery slope
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entraram em terreno escorregadio
Diria assim...
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Note added at 54 mins (2009-06-14 21:03:46 GMT)
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Ou enveredaram por terreno escorregadio
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Note added at 54 mins (2009-06-14 21:03:46 GMT)
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Ou enveredaram por terreno escorregadio
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Carlos Quandt
Brazil
Brazil
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caminho sem volta
slippery slope
1. (idiomatic) A chain of events that, once initiated, cannot be halted; especially one in which the final outcome is undesirable or precarious.
I think basing your actions off an assumption like that is a slippery slope that is going to get you in trouble.
Synonyms
* point of no return
1. (idiomatic) A chain of events that, once initiated, cannot be halted; especially one in which the final outcome is undesirable or precarious.
I think basing your actions off an assumption like that is a slippery slope that is going to get you in trouble.
Synonyms
* point of no return
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resvalaram numa descida/ num declive perigoso(a) / escorregadio(a)
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Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Norway
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Norway
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
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, Portuguese
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seguiram em direção ao abismo, foram em direção ao abismo,
Significa seguir uma direção que leva ao desastre
slide down a slippery slope:
A tricky precarious situation, especially one that leads gradually but inexorably to disaster: “[Without] a clear boundary to confer personhood on a human being … we approach a slippery slope that ends in the disposal of inconvenient people” (Steven Pinker).
A dangerous course, one that leads easily to catastrophe, as in He's on a slippery slope, compromising his values to please both the bosses and the union. This metaphoric expression alludes to traversing a slick hillside, in constant danger of falling. [Mid-1900s]
slide down a slippery slope:
A tricky precarious situation, especially one that leads gradually but inexorably to disaster: “[Without] a clear boundary to confer personhood on a human being … we approach a slippery slope that ends in the disposal of inconvenient people” (Steven Pinker).
A dangerous course, one that leads easily to catastrophe, as in He's on a slippery slope, compromising his values to please both the bosses and the union. This metaphoric expression alludes to traversing a slick hillside, in constant danger of falling. [Mid-1900s]
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