sooner or later
In due time
Sooner or later means eventually, at some unspecified future time.
The phrase emphasizes inevitability rather than timing—something will happen, though exactly when remains uncertain: Sooner or later, you'll have to face the truth.
It often carries a note of warning or resignation about an unavoidable outcome.
- somedayVague future time
- eventuallyAt a later time
- sometimeAt an unspecified moment
- in due courseWhen appropriately expected
- inevitablySure to happen
ultimately · at some point · yet · finally · bound to · one day · anon · later · before long · by and by · shortly · matter of time · in time · all in good time · afterward · future · looming · coming
- phrasesnoun phrases, noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, prepositional phrases
- time expressionsnow, today, tomorrow, later, yesterday
- time wordsminute, hour, day, now, today
- vague wordssomething, someone, somewhere, sometime, somehow
- future talkgoing to, will do, up next, eventually, someday
- patience phraseswait, hold on, just a minute, one moment, one second
temporal certainty of occurrence
sooner or laternever
At no point
not ever · at no time · under no circumstances · nevermore · not in a million years
temporal immediacy
sooner or laterimmediately
Without any pause
right now · at once · instantly · straightaway · forthwith