blow to kingdom come
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From blow (“to cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed”) + to + kingdom come (“place that one will go to after one’s death, afterlife; death; state of complete annihilation; heaven or paradise”). Kingdom come is derived from the phrase “Thy kingdom come” from the Lord’s Prayer which is recorded in Matthew 6:9–13 and Luke 11:2–4 in the Bible:[1] see, for example, Matthew 6:10 in the King James Version (spelling modernized): “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven.”[2] By these sentences, Jesus seeks the establishment of the rule of God the Father over the Earth in the future.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbləʊ tə ˌkɪŋdəm ˈkʌm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbloʊ tə ˌkɪŋdəm ˈkʌm/, [-ɾə-]
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌm
- Hyphenation: blow to king‧dom come
Verb
[edit]blow to kingdom come (third-person singular simple present blows to kingdom come, present participle blowing to kingdom come, simple past blew to kingdom come, past participle blown to kingdom come)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To totally destroy (something); to annihilate or wipe out (something).
- 1966 January 13, Lorenzo Semple Jr., “Smack in the Middle”, in Robert Butler, director, Batman, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Batman (Adam West), via American Broadcasting Company:
- If this gas ignites, it'll blow you to kingdom come, you venal viper!
- 1976, Jacques Levy, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Joey”, in Desire, performed by Bob Dylan:
- The hostages were trembling when they heard a man exclaim / “Let’s blow this place to kingdom come, let Con Edison take the blame”
Translations
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “kingdom come, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2017; “kingdom come, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Matthew 6:10, column 2: “Thy kingdome come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heauen.”
Further reading
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Kingdom Come (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - To Kingdom Come (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “to kingdom come, phrase”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
