kingdom come

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(Can we verify this etymology?) From the phrase thy kingdom come in the Lord's Prayer

kingdom come (uncountable)

The next world; heaven or paradise
- 1843 Charles Dickens - Bentley's Miscellany
  
  Dead ! dead as herrings — gone to kingdom come a precious long time ago.