the balloon goes up

if the balloon goes up, a situation suddenly becomes very serious or unpleasant The balloon went up last Friday when the scandal became public.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Pamphilos	-	Ancient Greek
Nadejda	nah-DYEZH-dah (Russian)	Russian, Bulgarian
Benny	BEN-ee	English
Ilsa	IL-sah	German
Fruma	-	Yiddish
Feibush	-	Yiddish