sealed fate
Destiny now certain
A sealed fate is an outcome that has become inevitable and unchangeable.
Once fate is sealed, no action can alter the course of events: The moment the bridge collapsed, the trapped miners' fate was sealed.
The phrase often appears at the point when circumstances shift from uncertain to certain doom, though occasionally toward an unavoidable positive outcome.
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- inevitableCertain to occur
- condemnedOfficially declared unfit
- death sentenceJudicial order of execution
predetermined · written in stone · death · judgment · verdict · locked · irreversible · cursed · damned · oracle · prophecy · inescapable · point of no return · no turning back · finality · closure · coffin · nail
- fatedestiny, kismet, Moira, Norns, doom
- No turning backpoint of no return, Rubicon, burn bridges, all or nothing, crossed the line
- predestinationpredestination, foreordination, preordination, election, foreknowledge
- doomdoomsday, impending doom, doom and gloom, doomed, sense of doom
- Easy Thingseasy, simple, easy peasy, easy-peasy, easy as pie
- tragedytragedy, tragic flaw, tragic hero, tragic heroes, tragic irony
sealed fatesecond chance
Renewed opportunity after failure
new beginning · fresh start · reprieve · stay of execution · hope
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