blown to kingdom come
Exploded beyond recognition
Blown to kingdom come means violently destroyed by explosion, scattered so completely that the pieces reach the afterlife.
Kingdom come, from the Lord's Prayer ("thy kingdom come"), refers to heaven or the end of days.
The phrase emphasizes total obliteration: The bomb blew the building to kingdom come.
Sometimes used hyperbolically for any forceful destruction.
- cataclysmicViolently destructive in scale
- gone up in smokeDestroyed beyond recovery
- detonationExplosive ignition event
- apocalypticPertaining to ultimate devastation
- bombingAttack with explosives
up in flames · carpet bombing · blast radius · shock wave · annihilation · reduced to rubble · ground zero · demolition · incineration · smithereens · obliteration · carnage · world-ending · fragmentation · shattering · combustion · eruption · biting the dust