Chaos Phrases

Idioms for chaos

• A bit of a porridge
• All hell broke loose
• All over the shop
• Alphabet soup (a jumble of words or letters, often in reference to organsiations known by their initials, like CIA or BBC)
• Anarchy In The UK
• Attention deficit disorder
• Between love and madness lies Obsession (Calvin Klein advertising slogan)
• Chinese fire drill
• Complete shambles
• Crisis management
• Crisis, what crisis? (Jim Callaghan quotation)
• Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
• Don't mess with Texas
• Don't mess with my head
• Eating disorder

• Fog of war
• Fred Carno's circus
• Frightful mess
• Harum scarum
• Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into (A catchphrase from Laurel And Hardy)
• Hot mess
• Hurly burly
• Identity crisis
• In a flap
• In a flutter
• Looks like a bomb has hit it
• Mess around
• Motorway madness
• Muddle headed
• Oh, that way madness lies

• Organised chaos
• Play havoc with
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Seasonal affected disorder
• Sheer madness
• Situation normal, all f*cked up
• The butterfly effect
• The fog of war (confusion caused by the chaos of battle)
• There's method in my madness
• This is very midsummer madness
• Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
• We won't make a drama out of a crisis (Commercial Union advertising slogan)
• Wreak havoc