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shitstorm

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From shit + storm.

  1. A chaotic and unpleasant or violent situation.

    The hell with Brown […] He's been missing all the shit storms. It's his turn.

    'Sometimes the pool-pah,' Bokonon tells us, 'exceeds the power of humans to comment.' Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as 'shit storm' and at another point as 'wrath of God'.

  2. Considerable backlash from the public.

    Near-synonyms: blowback, fallout

    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 universal shitstorm.