kingdom come

1. 1.

   the next world

   “he nearly blew us to kingdom come”

   Broaderafterlife
2. 2.

   the end of time

   “you can wet the bed till kingdom come, for all I care”

   Broaderfuture

Questions about kingdom come

What does kingdom come mean?

kingdom come means "the next world". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is kingdom come a common word?

kingdom come is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.