final reckoning
Last settling up
A final reckoning is a last accounting or settling of debts—literal or figurative.
The phrase often carries apocalyptic weight, suggesting ultimate judgment: At the final reckoning, all will be revealed.
More loosely, it refers to any conclusive confrontation or settling of scores: After years of rivalry, their final reckoning came in the championship match.
- paybackRetaliation for wrongs
- settling accountsResolving financial obligations
- chickens come homePast wrongs revisit their source
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- doomsdayProphesied world's end
Armageddon · judgment · accountability · scales of justice · balance the books · end times · eschatology · Ragnarok · comeuppance · face the music · conclusion · divine justice · end of the world · outcome · world ending · settlement · closure · atonement
- Afterlife Judgmentscales of justice, judgment day, Book of the Dead, Osiris, Anubis
- Judgment Dayjudgment day, doomsday, second coming, rapture, end times
- eschatologyeschatology, apocalypse, end times, second coming, judgment day
final reckoningbeginning
Initial stage of something
start · opening · commencement · first step · inception
final reckoningrough estimate
Imprecise preliminary calculation
initial assessment · first draft · interim report · ballpark figure · guesstimate
final reckoningclean slate
Record wiped clear
impunity · amnesty · absolution · reprieve · pardon
final, finally, reckon, finale, reckoning, finalize, finalized, finality, finals