last trump

last trump

The final trumpet blast that will be sounded on Judgment Day to signal the dead to rise. The disgraceful way some people act these days makes me wonder if the last trump is coming sooner than later.
See also: last, trump
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • sit in judgment on
  • sit in judgment on (one)
  • weak moment
  • a weak moment
  • moment of weakness
  • in a moment of weakness
  • in a weak moment
  • weak moment, in a
  • let he that is without sin cast the first stone
  • let him who is without sin cast the first stone
References in classic literature
And when the last trump sounds, and Sonoma Mountain and all the other mountains pass into nothingness, that old slide will be still a-standing there, held up by the roots."
The house and all within it trembled; the foundations of the earth seemed to be shaken, as if this awful sound were the peal of the last trump. Young and old exchanged one wild glance, and remained an instant, pale, affrighted, without utterance, or power to move.
"How like a first night at the Opera!" he thought, recognising all the same faces in the same boxes (no, pews), and wondering if, when the Last Trump sounded, Mrs.
Klein, a former NFL player with the San Francisco Forty-Niners and Houston Oilers, is a documentary filmmaker and the author of four books, most recently, The Deep State Prophecy and the Last Trump.
The Last Trump? The title above is not a warning of imminent doom but a clue to a pair of words that have the same spelling but are pronounced differently--the opposite of homophones, in fact.
And regardless of his future success, it seems he may not be the last Trump to run for the White House as son Donald Trump Jr said he would not rule out a future in politics.
As each side sought to play its last trump cards, the pro-EU 'Britain Stronger in Europe' campaign issued a final poster of a door leading into a dark void with the slogan: "Leave and there's no going back."
Those were nowhere near the last Trump comments to be deemed insensitive. In fact, Trump is not above repeating things he knows will get a rise out of his liberal opponents.
This is the last trump, and the trumpet is sounding for our generation.
So when the last trump is sounded Taurus will be tucking into their favourite food and drink.
"The Erdoy-an regime is playing its last trump cards in order to prevent the plots they devised and want to go ahead with from being revealed.
And of course a new strategy because The Hague was Macedonia's last trump. We used it but what next, Kramarska wonders.
But Labour had one last trump card - which it played when Gordon Brown announced he would resign in order to make a deal with the Lib Dems possible.
The Tigers played their last trump card in the penultimate heat by giving Grieves a tactical substitute ride from the 15-metre handicap in a bid for double points.
But the artful Warne still had one last trump card left to play .