Swedish has the delightfully opaque expression “skita I det blå skåpet”, literally “to shit in the blue cabinet”, meaning to badly screw something up.
I submit “and now we all have to live in a blender” as a similarly specific English expression of horror at how badly something has gone.
^^^ I'm using both of these phrases for the rest of my life now.
i actually know this one! in places where it’s cold as hell, such as sweden, before indoor plumbing, you could have a specific cabinet to store the chamber pot in, so you didn’t have it just stinking up the place under the bed or whatever until you threw out the next day.
however, at night, or if you were drunk, or whatever, by mistake, another cabinet might be opened, like the nicely painted cabinet for the dishes, and you would have shit in the blue cabinet, and you would have badly screwed something up.
anyway i love this phrase.