Aroused, agitated, or incited to widespread protest, to civil disorder, or to revolution.
The people will be in the streets if the policymakers allow hyperinflation to happen.
In the daily life of the general public.
blood in the streets
A standard pearl of investment advice says that the bargains begin while there's still blood in the streets. [ = widespread economic pain and disruption]
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, the, streets.
There was flooding in the streets between the riverfront and the viaduct.