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What does "hit the fan" mean? "Everything hit the fan at once, didn't it? I read about poor Carol." What does "hit the fan" mean?
Feb 26, 2015 8:44 PM
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The word that has been omitted and replace with 'everything' is 'shit: it's a common phrase used to express the idea of everything going wrong. It's usually 'when the shit hits the fan', quite literally it reflects the image of poo being sliced by a fan's blades and being blown over everything; spreading over everything. That's just a physical way of explaining it. Hope i could help :)
February 26, 2015
everything went wrong at once!
February 27, 2015
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