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Noun
crack of doom
- The signal for the final dissolution of all things by God; the last trump; the end of the world.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 144:Why do you ſhew me this?—A fourth? Start eyes! / What will the Line ſtretch out to th' cracke of Doome?