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hit the fan

vb. (context idiomatic intransitive English) To have a dramatic, usually negative, effect.

Usage examples of "hit the fan".

Get out of the way, and maybe, maybe I'd have a shot at maintaining I hadn't been here at all when all the shit hit the fan.

Maybe I really had slowed them down, but he was definitely getting me out of the way before the main shit hit the fan.

He made plans to be as far out of range as possible when Vicki found out and the shit hit the fan.

I'm going inside that shack, and about two minutes later a very large chunk of shit is going to hit the fan.

We always realized that if the shit hit the fan we'd want the protectee in armor.

I can't tell you how, or when, but if I manage to do everything that's been asked of me, a truly prodigious amount of shit is gonna hit the fan.

It was his own Bureau-what had been his own Bureau, anyway, until all this preposterous crap hit the fan.