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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

until Kingdom come en · ADP

Meanings

  1. Until death, until the afterlife.
    • I will love you until Kingdom come.
  2. (colloquial) At overly frequent intervals.
    • He pestered me until Kingdom come about the concert.
    • As it stands, the trajectory of the typical reality TV star is to continue appearing on each iteration of these shows until kingdom come (or until they are offered their own spin-off). 2020 July 30, Yomi Adegoke, “How 15 minutes of fame became 15 years for the perma-stars of reality TV”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
    • 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

eternally (until the afterlife) · relentlessly (frequently) · forever (until the afterlife) · frequently (frequently)