road to Damascus

Noun

Meaning

a sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

critical point point of no return breaking point turning point crunch time game changer break point defining moment radical change big change radical transformation drastic change dramatic change significant change life-changing point
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Antonyms

stagnation small change slight change minor change minimal change insignificant change

Hypernyms

landmark watershed turning point

Examples

If this conversion was genuine, we would have to go back 2,000 years to find another as rapid and as radical. Saul's embrace of Christianity on the road to Damascus stood the test of time but the Taoiseach's [Bertie Ahern] embrace of socialism on the banks of the Tolka hardly will. Joe Higgins

I trust those conversions when they happen on the road to Damascus and not on the road to Des Moines. Tom Tancredo

He has passed the road to Damascus. Hungarian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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