The phrase "fall into turmoil" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe a situation or event in which there is a great deal of chaos or confusion. For example, "After the government passed its latest law, the people fell into turmoil, protesting in the streets day and night."
China didn't fall into turmoil, and the ordinary people had even more faith in the party.
Speaking at a downtown hotel that was teeming with chain-smoking, leather-jacketed police politique, he added, "I am seriously fearing that Tunisia will fall into turmoil and experience violence".
To our surprise, however, everything falls apart for Dr. T. — his wife (Farrah Fawcett) strips off her clothes in a mall and fades into a loony bin, his daughters fall into turmoil, and the doctor throws himself into the arms of an independent woman (Helen Hunt) who doesn't want much of anything from him.
The profession fell into turmoil.
See articleMeanwhile, Israel's politics fell into turmoil.
As markets tumbled and the Cypriot Parliament fell into turmoil, salvos of blame were hurled back and forth across the Continent.
In reworking their trucks, efforts that began long before the industry fell into turmoil, the two companies took different approaches.
The club fell into turmoil when Martin O'Neill resigned just five days before last season began while his successor Gerard Houllier was forced to leave the club on 1 June due to health reasons.
Mali fell into turmoil last March following a military coup in the capital, Bamako, which has long struggled to maintain control over the country's distant north, an area as large as Afghanistan.
The wig business fell into turmoil last month when several leading rabbis in Israel and in Brooklyn, where there are large numbers of Orthodox Jews, ruled that wigs made from Indian hair were to be forbidden.
The profession fell into turmoil, with some physicists sticking to existing theories, while others came up with the big-bang theory.The author cites some Chicago scholars, like Richard Posner and Raghuram Rajan, who are building on the lessons of the crisis to build a better Chicago approach to macroeconomics.
