shit hits the fan

when something is about to go terribly wrong. what all the people on “doomsday preppers” say.
i made myself a bunker and have lots of food and guns stored in there, because we all know when sh-t hits the fan people is gonna wish they was me!!
when things get chaotic or uncontrolable, sh-t has h-t the fan.
3,000 people were waiting for the movie 7 hours before it opened. when it was announced that the movie would not be showing, 50 chimps on motorcycles parachuted down from the sky. the monkeys pulled out -ssorted automatic -ssault weapons and then the sh-t hit the fan.
1. when the critical moment occurs, usually involves the culmination of some sort of crisis or scandal.

2. when sh-t is literally slung into a fan. (see the movie airplane.)
when your wife finds out, the sh-t’s gonna hit the fan.
the point at which “the sh-t hits the fan” is the point at which an already unstable situation devolves into utter chaos, often in spite of–or even due to–a higher authority’s attempt to control it.
“but what happens if the cops try to suppress the protest?”
“well, then, the sh-t hits the fan.”
“a full-scale riot?”
“exactly.”
when something you’ve been trying to cover up goes public.
the sh-t’s h-t the fan! they found the bug in the da’s office!
when something blows up, goes big in the news, etc..
people talking sh-t, but when the sh-t hits the fan, everything im not, made me everything i am
-kanye west
a much worse consequence or event

lyrics from the incubus song, consequence (make yourself)

— …think that you’re on a brink? the sh-t hasn’t even begun to hit the fan…

you are worried about your current situation? wait ’til the sh-t hits the fan!
its when the real serious moment comes
eminem: so what you gonna do when sh-t hits the fan, are you gonna stand and fight like a man, will you be as hard as you say you are, or your gonna run and ditch your body guard.

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