| kingdom come | |
| —n | |
| 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 |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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.”