kingdom come

Noun

kingdom come (countable and uncountable, plural kingdoms come or kingdom comes)

1. (colloquial, figuratively) Death; also, a state of complete annihilation.
   • '[…] I infer that he was rather nervous, sir, for he shot at me without saying a word.'
     'If only he'd had the sense to do that in my case we might both be in Kingdom Come now.'1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
2. (colloquial, specifically) Heaven or paradise.
   • "And where are all these brothers and sisters?" demanded the stranger. / "Dead! dead as herrings—gone to kingdom come a precious long time ago.["]1843, Alfred Crowquill [pseudonym; Alfred Henry Forrester], “The ‘Plummy’”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XIII, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, part I, page 624
3. (uncountable) The rule of God over the world in the future; especially, according to those believing in millenarianism, during a period of peace beginning with the second coming of Jesus Christ and lasting a millennium.
4. (broadly, countable) A future period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and/or great progress; a golden age that is approaching.
   • Somewhere between the O's and ones / That's where I found my kingdom come2024, Nemo, “The Code”