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单词 hell is popping
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hell is (a-)popping
l. Originally U.S. hell is (a-)popping and variants: events are unfolding in a chaotic manner; a state of confusion and disarray is taking hold; ‘all hell is breaking loose’ (cf. all hell breaks loose at Phrases 1a).The use of one-word forms was popularized by the title of the 1941 U.S. film Hellzapoppin' and the 1938 theatre musical Hellzapoppin, on which this is based; cf. hellzapoppin' adj.
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1875 Overland Monthly Aug. 146/2 Hell's a poppin', I tell yer.
1894 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 8 Jan. A reporter asked him the latest news from Honolulu. ‘Hell is popping down there.’
1940 M. Lowry Let. Jan. in Sursum Corda! (1995) I. 269 By that time it is likely that real hell will be popping in Europe.
1945 Nebraska State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 20 Oct. 8/4 (heading) Hellzapopping! And all because of a football team!
1956 R. Ellison Let. 7 Nov. in R. Ellison & A. Murray Trading Twelves (2000) 152 He starts talking about the draft and bomb control just at the moment hell pops.
1991 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 1 Feb. No one's noticed, for outside hellzapoppin.
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