all hell breaks loose en · X
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) The situation becomes chaotic or characterized by conflict or rage.
Pack and get dressed / Before your father hears us / Before all hell breaks loose
1997, “Exit Music (For a Film)”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:Came not all hell broke loose?
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:I think it's kind of fun because, had Hillary Clinton spoken at the Democratic Convention, all hell would have broken loose.
1992 August 19, “Beckel, Barnes and Rollins Discuss the Republican Convention”, in CBS Morning:It was a shocking attack, and within hours all hell had broken loose.
2023 November 26, Rory Carroll, Lisa O'Carroll, “‘Remember who we are’: riots, race, and the end of the ‘Irish welcome’”, in The Observer, →ISSN:The U.S. commanders received the news in a moment of stunned silence. Then, all hell broke loose as, off in the distance, antiaircraft fire was spotted as the antisubmarine patrol aircraft made optimistic and recklessly-brave assaults; four aircraft in total, armed with depth charges, attacked over a dozen enemy fleet units.
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 2:05 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
Translations (14)
es todo se fue al demonio (the situation becomes chaotic) · hu elszabadul a pokol (the situation becomes chaotic) · es se arma la gorda (the situation becomes chaotic) · fr l'enfer se déchaîne (the situation becomes chaotic) · it si scatena l'inferno (the situation becomes chaotic) · sv (hela) helvetet brakar loss (the situation becomes chaotic) · fi helvetti pääsee valloilleen (the situation becomes chaotic) · de der Teufel ist los (the situation becomes chaotic) · pt o céu veio abaixo (the situation becomes chaotic) · pl rozpętać piekło (the situation becomes chaotic) · nl de hel breekt los (the situation becomes chaotic) · de die Hölle bricht los (the situation becomes chaotic) · ka დედის ტყვნა ატყდება (the situation becomes chaotic) · it succede un quarantotto (the situation becomes chaotic)