Unfortunately for us, “the jig is up, the goose is cooked, the fat is in the fire, and the cat is out of the bag”.
(James Thurber, “The Thirteen Clocks”, 1950)
The late Bill Buckley once predicted that unseating Taiwan on the U.N. Security Council and replacing it with the Communist Chinese regime would be like a China in the Bull Shop.
“...like a China in the Bull Shop.”
Good one!