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.
Prophesied ultimate conflict
- end timesProphesied apocalyptic conclusion
- doomsdayProphesied world's end
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- RagnarökNorse end times
second coming · final days · tribulation · revelation · apocalypse · cataclysm · annihilation · destruction
Official court decision
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
- adjudicationFormal decision on disputes
final judgment · comeuppance · settling accounts · divine judgment · accountability · guilt · innocence · deliberation
Decisive final confrontation
- final showdownDecisive concluding confrontation
- moment of truthDecisive instant of revelation
- face the musicAccept deserved consequences
- clashViolent disagreement or collision
comeuppance · settling scores · accounting · final accounting
Formal accounts examination
- balance sheetAssets-liabilities-equity report
- settling accountsResolving financial obligations
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- creditorsThose owed payment
insolvency · bankruptcy · financial collapse · margin call · foreclosure · collection · repayment · fiscal crisis
Authoritative wisdom source
- omenProphetic indicator
- foretellingAnnouncing future events
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
prediction · prophecy · prophet · fate · destiny · premonition · revelation · signs
Armageddon
Prophesied ultimate conflict
- end timesProphesied apocalyptic conclusion
- doomsdayProphesied world's end
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
Ragnarök · second coming · final days · tribulation · revelation · apocalypse · cataclysm · annihilation · destruction · end of days
verdict
Official court decision
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
adjudication · final judgment · comeuppance · settling accounts · divine judgment · accountability · guilt · innocence · deliberation · testimony
showdown
Decisive final confrontation
- final showdownDecisive concluding confrontation
- moment of truthDecisive instant of revelation
- face the musicAccept deserved consequences
clash · comeuppance · settling scores · accounting · final accounting
audit
Formal accounts examination
- balance sheetAssets-liabilities-equity report
- settling accountsResolving financial obligations
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
creditors · insolvency · bankruptcy · financial collapse · margin call · foreclosure · collection · repayment · fiscal crisis · bottom line
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- omenProphetic indicator
- foretellingAnnouncing future events
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
harbinger · prediction · prophecy · prophet · fate · destiny · premonition · revelation · signs · portent
- doomdoomsday, impending doom, doom and gloom, doomed, sense of doom
- End Timesapocalypse, Armageddon, rapture, end times, tribulation
- Judgment Dayjudgment day, final judgment, doomsday, second coming, rapture
- eschatologyeschatology, apocalypse, end times, final judgment, second coming
- Millenarianismmillennium, millenarianism, end times, second coming, rapture
- consequencesconsequence, consequences, result, results, effect
day of reckoningreprieve
Postponement of punishment
pardon · amnesty · exoneration · absolution · acquittal
day of reckoningindefinite postponement
Delay lacking set endpoint
stay of execution · deferral · kicking the can down the road · borrowed time · continuance
day of reckoningredemption
Recovery or moral restoration
divine forgiveness · grace · deliverance · rapture · jubilee