‘the police arrived one night and all hell broke loose’
‘Suddenly all hell broke loose and everybody dived for cover.… It was only later that the man's story emerged.’
‘Suddenly, all hell broke loose and a couple of compartments were set on fire.’
‘Suddenly all hell broke loose as one of the suspects struggled free, grabbed a knife and attacked an unarmed officer.’
‘But as soon as I say I'm only interested in Asians, suddenly all hell breaks loose!’
‘A raucous screech flooded her head and suddenly all hell broke loose.’
‘Suddenly, all hell broke loose; there was gunfire and explosions everywhere.’
‘‘All of a sudden, all hell broke loose,’ he told magistrates.’
‘And then all hell broke loose on the night of March 10 that year.’
‘Chances are, you might be a little shaken up if you happened to be down at Vinyl Lounge on Saturday night, when all hell broke loose outside the club.’
‘They give him a learning support assistant but as soon as things start to improve they withdraw it and all hell is let loose.’
‘It always starts with an investigative article in either The Washington Post or The New York Times, and all hell is let loose.’
‘We'd simply been reading a map when all hell broke loose, and now there were more than a dozen men milling around and telling us they were going to take Andrew's bike and we must go with them to the police station.’
‘But when I got to Los Angeles at the age of 22, all hell broke loose.’
‘But that's what he got - and all hell broke loose.’
‘‘We were there until 11 pm and then all hell broke loose,’ said the prison officer.’
‘Over the next few weeks, all hell broke loose on campus.’
‘When the final whistle blew all hell broke loose.’
‘And then all hell broke loose when he walked out.’
‘They agreed to meet and had nominated two of four delegates when Beverley arrived to ask them if they had their delegation organised and all hell broke loose.’
‘All hell would have broken loose if a fraction of these acts had been performed by the other side.’
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