day of reckoning

Time of consequences

A day of reckoning is a time when past actions must be accounted for and consequences faced.

The phrase has religious origins—the final judgment when souls answer for their deeds—but now applies broadly to any moment of truth: The company's day of reckoning came when the fraud was exposed.

It implies that evasion or delay has run out.

apocalypse

Armageddon

Prophesied ultimate conflict

Ragnarök · second coming · final days · tribulation · revelation · apocalypse · cataclysm · annihilation · destruction · end of days

judgment

verdict

Official court decision

adjudication · final judgment · comeuppance · settling accounts · divine judgment · accountability · guilt · innocence · deliberation · testimony

confrontation

showdown

Decisive final confrontation

clash · comeuppance · settling scores · accounting · final accounting

financial

audit

Formal accounts examination

creditors · insolvency · bankruptcy · financial collapse · margin call · foreclosure · collection · repayment · fiscal crisis · bottom line

prophecy

oracle

Authoritative wisdom source

harbinger · prediction · prophecy · prophet · fate · destiny · premonition · revelation · signs · portent

Categories
Opposites
accountability and judgment

day of reckoningreprieve

Postponement of punishment

pardon · amnesty · exoneration · absolution · acquittal

temporal urgency

day of reckoningindefinite postponement

Delay lacking set endpoint

stay of execution · deferral · kicking the can down the road · borrowed time · continuance

moral/spiritual outcome

day of reckoningredemption

Recovery or moral restoration

divine forgiveness · grace · deliverance · rapture · jubilee

Family

reckon, reckoning, reckoned, reckons, unreckoned

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG