shitstorm | Idiomator

Meaning: (slang,derogatory,vulgar)Achaoticandunpleasantorviolentsituation.Coordinate term:shit show1948, Norman Mailer,The Naked and the Dead:The hell with Brown[…]He's been missing all theshit storms. It's his turn.1963, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 110, inCat's Cradle:'Sometimes thepool-pah,' Bokonon tells us, 'exceeds the power of humans to comment.' Bokonon translatespool-pahat one point inThe Books of Bokononas 'shit storm'and at another point as 'wrath of God'.1973, Thomas Pynchon,Gravity’s Rainbow, Part I:“...seem’s he’s been tumbling ass over teakettle—though there’s no way to tell in this murkyshitstorm, no visual references...”1999, Joseph Finder,High Crimes:"You and your cowboys just stirred up ashitstorm, agent."2006, David Simon,Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets:In Baltimore, the general rule is that if something looks like ashitstorm, smells like ashitstormand tastes like ashitstorm, it goes to homicide.; (idiomatic,vulgar)Considerablebacklashfrom the public.2010, Mungo MacCallum,The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 32:When Abbott stated openly that his plan involved a new tax of 1.7% on large companies with big profit margins - those, in fact, most able to pay - he provoked a near universalshitstorm.

Examples:

EN: If he was out in the car, man there could have been a shitstorm, you know?
ES: Si estuviera él en el coche, tío no se iría ni aunque lloviera mierda.
EN: What a shitstorm.
ES: Qué desastre.
EN: I've never seen the truth come out of a shitstorm!
ES: ¡Nunca he visto que la verdad salga del caos!
EN: Until you realize what a shitstorm you got us into.
ES: No, hasta que se dé cuenta en la mierda que nos ha metido.
EN: No, a shitstorm! That's where we are.
ES: Pues no, estamos bien metidos en la mierda.
EN: There's a shitstorm coming, old man. You can stop it.
ES: Se está por armar una trifulca y usted puede pararla.
EN: Fucking kid led us into a shitstorm!
ES: - ¡Nunca me habían disparado tanto!
EN: Life is a shitstorm and when it's raining shit the best umbrella you can buy is art.
ES: La vida es como una tormenta de mierda, y cuando llueve mierda, el mejor paraguas que puedes comprar es el arte.
EN: Stir the shitstorm.
ES: Remueva la mierda.
EN: In short, Duke, a shitstorm.
ES: En dos palabras, Duke, una tormenta de mierda.
EN: Walked into a shitstorm.
ES: ¡Caminé a una lluvia de mierda!
EN: Willie, I agree with you in principle but this gets out, we're in a bigtime shitstorm.
ES: Willie, estoy de acuerdo contigo en principio pero si esto se sabe, la cosa se pone del carajo.
EN: Do you realize what a shitstorm we're in?
ES: Estamos de mierda hasta el cuello.
EN: And when it hits, it's gonna be the shitstorm of all time.
ES: Y cuando caiga va a ser una catástrofe jamás vista.
EN: You'll bring a shitstorm down on you.
ES: Te meteras en un lío.

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