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all hell breaks loose

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all hell breaks loose  (informal)
if all hell breaks loose, a situation suddenly becomes noisy and violent, usually with a lot of people arguing or fighting This big guy walked up to the bar and hit Freddie and suddenly all hell broke loose.
See also: break, hell, loose


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If the moves of the regulators are not predictable, all hell breaks loose.
So we start back down, and all hell breaks loose so we storm right back up.
A YOUNG BOY goes missing and all hell breaks loose in ``Freedomland,'' a movie with a lot on its mind and too much on its plate.
 
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