shitstorm

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shitstorm

rude slang A violent and/or chaotic situation. The coup has created a shitstorm for everyone in that country. Once people started throwing punches in the bar, we knew we had to get out of that shitstorm.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • as if (one's) life depends on it
  • depend
  • like (one's) life depends on it
  • clusterfuck
  • snafu
  • go down the rabbit hole
  • rabbit hole
  • NATO
  • Cf
References in periodicals archive
Rather, we await the installation of a new PM - the choice of the largely right-wing crank membership of the Tory Party - under whom the interminable Brexit shitstorm will continue.
Making Glock-style weapons available to be essentially manufactured at home in half an hour seems likely to spark a whole new shitstorm. Does it make you nervous to be releasing a product like this when you're under attack from multiple angles?
"It created a shitstorm of getting her unceremoniously kicked off the list," the State Department source told Foreign Policy, adding, "I think it was absolutely the wrong decision on so many levels."
"It would be good if there weren't a shitstorm" Broder said of his speech to the AfD, "and if there is one, even better." At the eye of the storm, such as it was in the American press, was Clemens Heni's recent denunciation in this publication, lambasting Broder for not only speaking to, but embracing, "the closest thing contemporary Germany has to a Nazi Party." Heni wrote, "Broder has now openly embraced the AfD and just days after the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution began an investigation into whether the party poses a serious threat to the German constitution and society."
Her shamed yet defiant reaction to the shitstorm she caused by flipping the bird during a Super Bowl halftime show is instantly relatable.
figure By WAIKWA MAINAbr War songs, shitstorm and threats rocked the release of bodies of FlySax plane crash victims from Njabini in Nyandarua to Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi.From the forest, the plan was to take the remains of the eight passengers and two crew members to the command centre at Njabini Boys High School before ferrying them to the capital.
He writes attentively about Rauschenberg's "chromatic shitstorm" and Johns's "decayed pictorial mulch"; he even notes people as a mess, as in Picasso, where "when women appear ...
Han talks about "the swarm," the kind of collective entity produced by digital media (the descendant of the 19th- and 20th-century "masses"), and the "shitstorm," the type of aggression-driven scandal that is typical of an internet campaign to destroy a person's livelihood and reputation--our current version of a lynching, or the proverbial angry villagers with torches.
The British -- I had a shitstorm coming from the other side of the Channel," he told students in his native Luxembourg.
Well, prepare for another shitstorm because Beat Generation just reissued the Pure Hell Noise Addiction LP.
"Everyone thought she was a junkie," he remembers of the media shitstorm that followed.
Taylor, Lenore and David Uren (2010) Shitstorm: Inside Labor's Darkest Days, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
It's not like I'm inheriting a shitstorm. She took a slighdy dysfunctional company, which is what I gave to her, and turned it into this midsized arts organization with solid productions.
Amazon faced what Der Spiegel called a "Shitstorm" and was strongly criticized by the federal minister of labor, the prime minister of the state government of Hesse, the head of the Labor Office in Hesse, as well as the Social Democratic Party opposition in the federal and state parliaments.