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
Lorie	LAWR-ee	English
Sharon	SHER-ən, SHAR-ən	English
AtÍLio	-	Portuguese
Samuil	sah-moo-EEL (Russian)	Russian, Bulgarian
GlÁUcia	-	Portuguese
Jozefo	yo-ZE-fo	Esperanto