release the kraken
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the 1981 film Clash of the Titans.[1]
Verb
[edit]release the kraken (third-person singular simple present releases the kraken, present participle releasing the kraken, simple past and past participle released the kraken)
- (informal, idiomatic) To unleash a greatly destructive force.
- 2020, Greg Cox, The Librarians Trilogy: The Librarians and the Lost Lamp, The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase, The Librarians and the Pot of Gold, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 237:
- "I believe we can safely pronounce the gods appeased." "So case closed?" Baird asked. "No more 'Release the Kraken' scenarios for the time being?" "I believe so."
- 2021, Brad Raffensperger, quoting Sidney Powell, Integrity Counts, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 57:
- She also claimed that governors and secretaries of state had "financial interests" in the voting machine company, and that they or their families had been enriched because of it. "I'm going to release the kraken," she said.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see release, Kraken.
Translations
[edit]to unleash a greatly destructive force