end of the world

end of the world

A very big deal or problem. Often used in the negative to describe a situation that one believes is being exaggerated. I know you're upset that you failed a test, but really, it's not the end of the world! You might think that not getting your driver's license today is the end of the world, but it's not. In five years, you won't even remember this day!
See also: end, of, world
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be (not) the end of the world
  • not be the end of the world
  • a big head
  • describe (someone or something) to (someone)
  • describe to
  • leez
  • Puh
  • Puh-leez!
  • puh-leeze
  • 0-day
References in periodicals archive
Both The End of the World in Four Seasons and The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg were created in Canada and produced by Marcy Page for the NFB.
Whether the end of the world makes you happy, sad, contemplative, remorseful or ambivalent, there is a song about the apocalypse out there for you.
"The Mayans have predicted the end of their calendar (interpreted as the 'End of the World') 11 a.m (GMT), or Dec.
A number of websites and radio broadcasts created a movement without churches to declare May 21, 2011 as the end of the world.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced that "The end of the world is coming" in a spoof video for one of the country's radio shows.
21, 2012 won't be the end of the world as we know it, however, it will be another winter solstice," Mashable quoted NASA as writing in a Google+ post.
Some interpret the 2012 date as marking the end of the world or a similar catastrophe, with suggested scenarios not too far removed from blockbuster disaster movies, including Earth colliding either with a black hole, a passing asteroid or a planet called Nibiru.
FILM fans have snubbed tales of the end of the world and voted for the story of a man trapped on a desert island with only a volleyball for company as the greatest survival movie of all time.
THE man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was released from prison yesterday - and proclaimed "the end of the world".
The Book of Revelation in the Bible predicts--down to description of events--the end of the world and the destruction of the earth: it outlived its creator and has had a major influence on Western civilization: an influence revealed and analyzed in A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization.
Here in LA, it's a wasteland, the beginning and end of the world. There's so much garbage but also strange, quiet things I've never found anywhere else.
That likely explains how he managed to star in a gay-themed film this summer--A Home at the End of the World, based on Michael Cunningham's novel about a gay man, a straight woman, and the free-spirited hunk they both love--without actually talking about it to anyone in the gay media, despite repeated requests by The Advocate and other publications.
No material for nativity plays here, but an adult Jesus, and he's issuing warnings--about the end of the world, about being on guard for the "appointed time," the "day your Lord is coming." Then we hear of John the Baptist, who makes ready the way of the Lord, who proclaims a baptism of repentance and cries out in the wilderness, "Reform your lives!" Only then do we hear of the Annunciation of Jesus' birth to Mary.
On April 22, at his weekly Wednesday audience, the Pope cautioned that attempts to predict the end of the world are "deceptive and erroneous." "Human history will come to an end," he said, "but Christ did not indicate any chronological framework."