"release the kraken" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the 1981 film Clash of the Titans.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "releases the kraken",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "releasing the kraken",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "released the kraken",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "released the kraken",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "releases the kraken",
        "2": "releasing the kraken",
        "3": "released the kraken",
        "4": "released the kraken"
      },
      "expansion": "release the kraken (third-person singular simple present releases the kraken, present participle releasing the kraken, simple past and past participle released the kraken)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, Lesley Paterson, The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion, VeloPress, page 171",
          "text": "Science now supports a cognitive appraisal model for understanding why some athletes can take everything in stride while others release the kraken.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Tess Gerritsen, The Shape of Night: The spine-tingling thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller, Random House, page 15",
          "text": "I haul the pet carrier into the house and release the kraken. Hannibal emerges from the cage, glares at me, and lumbers off toward the kitchen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Greg Cox, The Librarians Trilogy: The Librarians and the Lost Lamp, The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase, The Librarians and the Pot of Gold, Tom Doherty Associates, page 237",
          "text": "\"I believe we can safely pronounce the gods appeased.\" \"So case closed?\" Baird asked. \"No more 'Release the Kraken' scenarios for the time being?\" \"I believe so.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Brad Raffensperger, quoting Sidney Powell, Integrity Counts, Simon and Schuster, page 57",
          "text": "She also claimed that governors and secretaries of state had \"financial interests\" in the voting machine company, and that they or their families had been enriched because of it. \"I'm going to release the kraken,\" she said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To unleash a greatly destructive force."
      ],
      "id": "en-release_the_kraken-en-verb-hVIpV9be",
      "links": [
        [
          "unleash",
          "unleash"
        ],
        [
          "destructive",
          "destructive"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 84",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 86",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English quotations with omitted translation",
          "parents": [
            "Quotations with omitted translation",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see release, Kraken."
      ],
      "id": "en-release_the_kraken-en-verb-6WWsGa3G",
      "links": [
        [
          "release",
          "release#English"
        ],
        [
          "Kraken",
          "Kraken#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "open Pandora's box"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "Kraken"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "release the kraken"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English quotations with omitted translation",
    "English terms with quotations",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the 1981 film Clash of the Titans.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "releases the kraken",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "releasing the kraken",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "released the kraken",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "released the kraken",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "releases the kraken",
        "2": "releasing the kraken",
        "3": "released the kraken",
        "4": "released the kraken"
      },
      "expansion": "release the kraken (third-person singular simple present releases the kraken, present participle releasing the kraken, simple past and past participle released the kraken)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "open Pandora's box"
    },
    {
      "word": "Kraken"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, Lesley Paterson, The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion, VeloPress, page 171",
          "text": "Science now supports a cognitive appraisal model for understanding why some athletes can take everything in stride while others release the kraken.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Tess Gerritsen, The Shape of Night: The spine-tingling thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller, Random House, page 15",
          "text": "I haul the pet carrier into the house and release the kraken. Hannibal emerges from the cage, glares at me, and lumbers off toward the kitchen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Greg Cox, The Librarians Trilogy: The Librarians and the Lost Lamp, The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase, The Librarians and the Pot of Gold, Tom Doherty Associates, page 237",
          "text": "\"I believe we can safely pronounce the gods appeased.\" \"So case closed?\" Baird asked. \"No more 'Release the Kraken' scenarios for the time being?\" \"I believe so.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Brad Raffensperger, quoting Sidney Powell, Integrity Counts, Simon and Schuster, page 57",
          "text": "She also claimed that governors and secretaries of state had \"financial interests\" in the voting machine company, and that they or their families had been enriched because of it. \"I'm going to release the kraken,\" she said.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To unleash a greatly destructive force."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unleash",
          "unleash"
        ],
        [
          "destructive",
          "destructive"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see release, Kraken."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "release",
          "release#English"
        ],
        [
          "Kraken",
          "Kraken#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "release the kraken"
}