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SHIT HIT THE FAN

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"
SHIT HIT THE FAN by minghi May 10, 2003

shit hit the fan

Tom: Liverpool are playing Man United at Old Trafford this week-end.
Bill: I'm sure we'll see the shit hit the fan at that game!
shit hit the fan by Dung a Din November 5, 2008

Shit hit the fan

Term used in Halo 3, when someone is getting pretty pissed off and about to beat some serious ass and throw around some insults.
"Ya, shit hit the fan pretty early in the game, and i owned some serious ass last night."
Shit hit the fan by Darkrage December 27, 2007

Shit hit the fan

"When the shit hits the fan" is the vulgar and more satisfying term for a situation that suddenly gets messy. It gives you an idea of just how messy a situation by comparing it to being in a small room when a handful of loose feces are launched into the spinning fan blades.
1: When that silly old bitch pranged John's prized Mercedes in the parking lot and then tried to take off, shit really hit the fan. I though he was gonna kill her.

2: Where's our fucking money?! You better have it, or the shit is gonna hit the fan, believe you me!!

3: I lost everything back in 2008 when the shit hit the fan. Just like a lot of people.
Shit hit the fan by WHISKEYMAN1234 February 26, 2020

shit hit the fan and blew back in our faces

an incident witch expleeld to a point and completely got worse and came back to damage the person or persons in the future
when an argumet happened after and incident and the argument came back to haunt the people meaning the shit hit the fan and blew back in our faces

let the shit hit the fan

Sometimes it's advantageous to ignore the problem, let it explode, and have other people deal with it. This policy is called "let the shit hit the fan".
A: Look, these numbers they gave us are really wrong.
B: I say, let the shit hit the fan and then they'll fix it.