اختلطَ الحَابِلُ بالنَّابِل

Meaning

Everything was thrown into chaos. The idiom "Pandemonium broke loose.”

Notes

Lit. the rope-handler/hunter became mixed up with the archer. Meaning two completely different things got jumbled together, creating chaos and confusion. اِضْطَرَبَتِ الأُمُورُ وَتَعَقَّدَتْ وَصَارَتْ فَوْضَى - Matters became unsettled and complicated and turned into chaos.