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break loose
Idioms and Phrases
Escape from restraint, as in The boat broke loose from its moorings , or He finally broke loose from the school of abstract expressionism . This expression also appears in all hell breaks loose , which indicates a state of fury or chaos, as in When Dad finds out you broke his watch, all hell will break loose , or When the children saw the dead pigeon in the hall, all hell broke loose . [Early 1400s]Example Sentences
We started slow, but I think it was by the second game that she broke loose.
Last week, Trump demanded the freeing of all remaining Israeli hostages, declaring that “all hell†would break loose if they were not handed over by Saturday.
Then there was the time a date tried to kiss him, he refused and all hell broke loose.
He has threatened that "all hell" would break loose if the hostages were not released before he took office on 20 January.
Trump has previously said that "all hell would break loose" if the hostages were not released before he returned to the White House.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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