kingdom come

American  

noun

1. the next world; the hereafter; heaven.

2. Informal. a place or future time seemingly very remote.

   You could keep it up till kingdom come.

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kingdom come British  

noun

1. the next world; life after death

2. informal the end of the world (esp in the phrase until kingdom come )

3. informal unconsciousness or death

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kingdom come Cultural  

1. The next world; the afterlife: “The superpowers have enough nuclear warheads to blow the entire world to kingdom come.” An allusion to the Lord's Prayer: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.”

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Etymology

Origin of kingdom come

First recorded in 1775–85; extracted from the phrase Thy kingdom come in the Lord's Prayer

Example Sentences

And then where will price control be short of Kingdom come?

From Time Magazine Archive

Love Thy Enemy, and make no attempt to resist invasion: It's the way we live from the time we're a kiddy Till Kingdom come, and it s called an iddy .

From Time Magazine Archive

He hoped once to see such a thing realised; and the Petition, Thy Kingdom come, no longer an empty word.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

May the peace of Thy Kingdom come towards us, for we to it cannot of ourselves, if it come not, with all our striving.

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory by Norton, Charles Eliot

No, zur, they be both gone to Kingdom come.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman