The shit is information, and the fan a person or persons (often an employer or partner or someone in a position of seniority or superiority) to whom the information will be viewed as very bad news and also who is/are going to react immoderately and with no concern (or even some delight) as to whom the information then spreads.
This is an analogy for the worst possible development where concealment or deception have taken place and is a story in three parts: 1)The shit and the fan are seen as separate giving rise to nervousness of the awful consequences should they meet. 2)That moment arises, when time appears to stand still and the blades of the fan appear frozen for a split second. 3)There is an awful smell and a heck of a lot of clearing up to do.
This is an analogy for the worst possible development where concealment or deception have taken place and is a story in three parts: 1)The shit and the fan are seen as separate giving rise to nervousness of the awful consequences should they meet. 2)That moment arises, when time appears to stand still and the blades of the fan appear frozen for a split second. 3)There is an awful smell and a heck of a lot of clearing up to do.
The shit hit the fan when my mother returned home early to find my father trying on her best summer dress in front of the mirror.
by Paul Newton June 29, 2006
Get the shit hit the fan mug.After I opened the door to the Portal to the other dimension - about five or six two headed, green dog-like animals jumped out of it and started devouring everything. In other words - shit hit the fan.
by Gvazdas April 24, 2010
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When something so nasty works out so right it is as if you took a shit and it went straight down the drain as it fell.
When something so nasty works out so right it is as if you took a shit and it went straight down the drain as it fell.
"Bro I told Brittany I wanted to tie her legs to the ceiling, strip her down, and coat her in cream cheese and the broad says she wants to see me Friday night! The shit hit the drain for real this time man."
by LemmeStikMyToungueInYoButthole January 6, 2022
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When we were running late for our friends wedding because of me i was in trouble but it wasnt til we made it there that the sh_t hit the fan, the wedding was the previous day.
by Dave April 6, 2004
Get the shit hit the fan mug.The escalating of a situation to extreme boling point. The ensuing spillover and chaos from doing something that will piss someone else off.
by gang fuck September 1, 2003
Get the SHIT HIT THE FAN mug.by CJRB February 1, 2005
Get the shit hit the fan mug.when a bad secret is let out and everybody knows about it to disastrous consequences. imagine the smell and splatter if someone blasted hershey-squirts into a rotary fan.
my favorite scene in the movie airplane is when the shit hits the fan. to bad its cut out in the "edited for television version"
by minghi May 10, 2003
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