Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
all bets are off
Portuguese translation:
os dados estão lançados
English term
Portugal
10 years of experience
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, and 2 more.
all bets are off
Alguém tem sugestões para PT-PT?
Oct 17, 2009 00:10: jack_speak changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Oct 19, 2009 11:15: Susana Valdez changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/569204">Susana Valdez's</a> old entry - "all bets are off"" to ""os dados estão lançados""
PRO (3): Carlos Quandt, Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida, jack_speak
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Proposed translations
Portugal
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida 
30+ years translating EU documents
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese, and 1 more.
os dados estão lançados
Portuguese translations
Native in: Portuguese (Variants: Brazilian, Mozambican, Angolan, South African, European/Portugal, Cape Verdean) 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Italian to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, and 4 more.
não dá (mais) para apostar
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Fernando Okabe Biazibeti
: tradução literal não serve nesse caso
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Fábio Macedo
: perde-se o sentido de que as circunstâncias mudaram.
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continua tudo em aberto / tudo pode acontecer
Brazil
Professional, reliable and dedicated!
Native in: Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
está tudo em aberto
Acordos invalidados/ nao mais aplicaveis/cancelados/negocio cancelado ou sem mais validade
http://www.idiomsandexpressions.com/category/keywords/all-be...
http://www.speakenglish.biz/idioms.html
Rules don’t apply any more.
http://www.idiomquest.com/learn/idiom/all-bets-are-off/
Reference comments
Brazil
Marketing, technical, scientific, Ph.D.
Native in: Portuguese
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
all bets are off
The situation has changed to make the outcome uncertain.
This applies to a situation where the variables cannot or no longer can be predicted.
all bets are off...figuratively, means the situation has changed and no one knows with any certainty what will happen next.
We expected her to marry the banker. But now that his bank has lost all its money, all bets are off.
We don't know what will happen next
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Portugal
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
30+ years translating EU documents
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal)
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese, and 1 more.
All bets are off
When Janine is around Corey, all bets are off...the poor dude just can't be himself anymore.
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rir
: exacto, não há hipótese!...Uma coisa é certa, ele já não pode ser ele mesmo
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Obrigada, Rita!
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Discussion
All bets are off MEANS: agreements that have been made no longer apply. Rules don’t apply any more.
Por isso na sua frase, o segundo segmento eh a explicacao do primeiro:)
http://www.speakenglish.biz/idioms.html
http://www.idiomsandexpressions.com/category/keywords/all-be...
procurei mais um pouco e acho que eh isto mesmo, veja Suzana, vou retirar minha resposta que nao se aplica neste caso. Obg.
isto o sentido neste contexto da Suzana.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_all_bets_are_off_mean
Um exemplo interessante:
all bets are off...figuratively, means the situation has changed and no one knows with any certainty what will happen next.
Let's say you are at a horserace and have placed a bet on a horse. Before the race begins the favorite horse breaks a leg. The loudspeakers announce, " Ladies and gentelemen all bets are off! Return you tickets!"
The conditions of the race have changed and the bookmakers can no longer calculate the chances of any horse winning, so they have called off the bets.
http://www.italki.com/answers/question/49876.htm
Nunca se pode contar com o futuro
Em segundo lugar, um pouco mais de contexto, os meus heróis da história estão em apuros, os vilões descobriram a sua verdadeira identidade e o narrador diz: All bets are off now. He was down to a few desperate chances. Portanto, eu acho que exprime a ideia de que, como o delveneto disse, **o futuro está em aberto**, já não há nada certo, ou como o quandt disse na referência "The situation has changed to make the outcome uncertain.".
Talvez algo como: a partir de agora o futuro é incerto.
eu acho que é no sentido de que se já não há hipóteses/variáveis, nem expectativas para que a coisa mude...então cancela-se, fica sem efeito o acordo (por exemplo o casamento, no exemplo referido por uma colega). Just trying to think big!