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| опасный спуск (zelechowski); опасное дело (zelechowski); опасная затея (VLZ_58); опасная ситуация (With advances in gene manipulation, women in the future won’t need to seek out tall, handsome math professors to increase their chances of getting a smarter, stronger, healthier baby. When that day comes, society will have to deal with a slippery slope. Most parents who can afford it will choose to give their children every genetic advantage they can. But what will happen to the children of the poor born without genetic manipulation? VLZ_58); чем дальше, тем хуже (Tanya Gesse) | |||
| курс (курс, движение, какие-либо действия, ведущие к провалу, неприятностям, бедам Taras); скользкая дорожка (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 Taras); скользкий путь (a course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous: he is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime Taras); опасный путь (Restricting these basic freedoms is a slippery slope for our country. ART Vancouver) | |||
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| скользкий путь; скользкий склон | |||
| slippery slope: 10 phrases in 5 subjects |
| Figurative | 1 |
| General | 6 |
| Idiomatic | 1 |
| Psychology | 1 |
| Rhetoric | 1 |