when the time comes

1. 1.

   at the appropriate time

   “we'll get to this question in due course”

   Synonymsin due coursein due seasonin good timein due time

Questions about when the time comes

What does when the time comes mean?

when the time comes means "at the appropriate time".

What is another word for when the time comes?

Close synonyms include in due course, in due season, in good time, in due time. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is when the time comes a common word?

when the time comes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.