单词 | hell breaks let) loose |
释义 | > as lemmas(all) hell breaks (also (is) let) loose a. (all) hell breaks (also (is) let) loose: events are chaotic, confusion reigns. ΚΠ ?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 215 To be revelinge and bousinge after such a lewde fashion I thinke hell breake louse. 1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. E4v Before my hell of foule mishap breake loose. 1679 J. Dryden & N. Lee Oedipus ii. 26 Since Hell's broke loose, why should not you be mad? 1777 W. Combe Diabo-lady 13 Call up my guards—What! is all Hell broke loose? 1821 Ld. Byron Vision Judgm. lviii Their..cries..realised the phrase of ‘hell broke loose’. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lxxvii. 405 It was hopeless to think of recovering them, with such hell let loose. 1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 27 So of course when some little ‘hussy’ decided to charge the favourite cop at the police station with assault, you know, all hell broke loose. 1999 C. Dolan Ascension Day (2000) viii. 192 She..gave that useless family a piece of her mind. All hell was let loose, and before long Morag was suspended from her job. < as lemmas |
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