mal tourner

go badly

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phrase Uncommon #16,634

go badly Used to say that a situation is deteriorating or taking a turn for the worse. In “ça va mal tourner pour toi,” it means that things are going to go badly for you.

FR: Si tu continues comme ça, ça va mal tourner.

EN: If you keep going like that, things are going to go badly.

Très mal tourner.

It turned out very badly.

— Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)

Ça va mal tourner.

This is going to end badly.

Je t'aurais empêché de mal tourner.

I would have stopped you from going astray.

— Taxi (1998)

Tu arrêtes, sinon ça va mal tourner pour ta mère, compris ?

You stop, otherwise things are going to end badly for your mother, understand?

— Funny Games (1997)

Très bien écoutez vous savez à quel point les choses peuvent mal tourner.

Listen, you know how badly things can go wrong.

— Insaisissables 3 (2025)

Je viens du futur et tout ça est en train de très mal tourner.

I come from the future and all of this is going very wrong.

— Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)

Comment ça a pu si mal tourner ?

How could things have gone so wrong?

— Wake Up Dead Man : Une histoire à couteaux tirés (2025)

Ça va mal tourner pour toi.

Things are going to turn out badly for you.

— Kin-dza-dza! (1986)