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until Kingdom come

until Kingdom come prepositional phrase: until death, until the afterlife.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Until death, until the afterlife.
    • I will love you until Kingdom come.
    Synonyms:
    forever, eternally
  2. (colloquial) At overly frequent intervals.
    • He pestered me until Kingdom come about the concert.
    • Brexeternity The notion that Brexit will never in fact be over; that Britain will be stuck half-in and half-out of the European Union forever, condemned to permanent and mind-numbingly awful negotiations until kingdom come (coined by Tony Blair’s Europe minister Denis MacShane).2018 November 15, Jon Henley, “From here to Brexeternity: an alternative lexicon for these times”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Synonyms of until Kingdom come

Questions about until Kingdom come

What does until Kingdom come mean?
Until Kingdom come means until death, until the afterlife.
What part of speech is until Kingdom come?
Until Kingdom come is a prepositional phrase.

Words near until Kingdom come in the dictionary

  1. untightness
  2. until
  3. until all hours
  4. until further notice
  5. until hell freezes over
  6. until Kingdom come
  7. until next time
  8. until one is blue in the face
  9. until one's dying day
  10. until proven otherwise
  11. until such time as

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