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hit the fan

To have a dramatic, usually negative, effect.

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  • This expression is almost certainly from colloquial expressions involving shit hitting the fan.
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They were just clowning around, when suddenly it all hit the fan.
Then the shit really hit the fan.

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Submitted on July 07, 2010

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