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Fernando França Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

It's starting to hit the fan

Hi guys! I hope everything is all right with all of you!

I'm from Brazil and I'm very glad to know that there is a place like this, concerned in help us in the improvement of our language skills.

I need a hand to understand exactly the meaning of the following expressions:

"It's starting to hit the fan" and "The place is becoming a salt mine".

Thanks in advance!
  

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Hi Fernando, Welcome to the Forum. "It's starting to hit the fan" 'It' here refers to human excrement. Imagine what would happen if you took a lot of that and threw it into a fan.

— Clive

  • Hi Fernando, Welcome to the Forum.
  • "It's starting to hit the fan" 'It' here refers to human excrement.
  • Imagine what would happen if you took a lot of that and threw it into a fan.
  • There would be a big, nasty, untidy mess everywhere in the room.
  • We use this expression to mean, figuratively, that there is going to be a lot of trouble and problems very soon.
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Hi Fernando,

Welcome to the Forum.

"It's starting to hit the fan" 'It' here refers to human excrement. Imagine what would happen if you took a lot of that and threw it into a fan. There would be a big, nasty, untidy mess everywhere in the room.

We use this expression to mean, figuratively, that there is going to be a lot of trouble and probl
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when looking for idioms, try searching at Yahoo with:
"hit the fan" idiom
or
"hit the fan" dictionary
(the quotation marks are important to group the terms)

in this case, you're lucky:

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Thank you Clive!

Your post was very helpful to me!

Fernando
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