All hell broke loose.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 918.

To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Loose his beard, and hoary hair

Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): The Bard. I. 2, Line 5.