dégénérer

Tu m'avais juré que la fête ne dégénèrerait pas.
You swore that the party wouldn't get out of control.
Je vous avais dit que ça dégénérerait.
Told you this would get out of hand.
Je ne pensais pas que ça dégénérerait.
I'm sorry things got out of hand, sir.
Au contraire, la situation dégénérerait et serait pire qu’en Irak ou en Afghanistan.
On the contrary, the situation would worsen and it would turn more difficult than in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Le Conseil peut-il confirmer que, lors de la réunion des ministres des Affaires étrangères de samedi, cet aspect de la coordination et de la gestion de la crise (planification de contingence) figurera à l'ordre du jour au cas où la situation dégénérerait ?
Can the Council confirm that at the meeting on Saturday of foreign ministers this point of crisis management and coordination - contingency planning - will be on the agenda in case the situation gets worse?
L’argument avancé pour cela : en temps de crise, le pire que l’on pourrait faire serait de supprimer les dépenses, car ceci aggraverait la récession qui dégénérerait alors en véritable dépression.
The argument has been that at a time of crisis the worst thing you can do is to cut spending because that deepens the recession and makes it into a full blown depression.
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