of biblical proportions

of biblical proportions

Of a huge or catastrophic size, magnitude, or severity. The typhoon laid waste to the coast of Japan, causing damage of biblical proportions. An evacuation of biblical proportions has been underway since the civil war began.
See also: biblical, of, proportion
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • shoot (someone or something) (all) to hell
  • shoot to hell
  • boiling frog
  • boiling frog syndrome
  • syndrome
  • on a biblical scale
  • destroy
  • an ant may well destroy a whole dam
  • ant
  • plan for
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A nearly $6,000 monthly paycheck, a cozy apartment, a secretary, and nuns to look after his needs in the heart of Rome doesn't sound like the exile of biblical proportions. However, the continuing pain, suffering and struggle of those who had to endure the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual traumas of sexual abuse must surely know exile beyond vocabulary.
Make a statement of biblical proportions with these classy crowns.
The result of the combined energies and talents is an inspired cast of biblical proportions with Blair Underwood portraying Jesus for the second time in his career.
So what caused this blunder of Biblical proportions? According to the Journal, it was the county clerk who informed it of the Old Testament leader's supposed electoral success.
Chuck Stetson, chairman of the Bible Literacy Project (BLP), gave the lavishly illustrated 390-page volume an endorsement of biblical proportions.
This is a bounce catastrophe of biblical proportions.
But as for multitudes of biblical proportions, WMA and ICM can relax.
They were obliterated by a torrential downpour of biblical proportions that washed away all traces of the high-dollar affair.
You might say that Mike Moses is a leader of Biblical proportions. He runs a really big school district--12th largest in the U.S.--oversees a super-sized $1.2 billion budget and makes $325,000 a year, by many accounts more than any other superintendent.
It's a plague of biblical proportions, but this pestilence is here and now, the product of a process gone awry, the long-term price exacted for the greed, indifference, and mismanagement of America's woodlands during the cut-and-run logging operations that prevailed nearly a century ago.
Basdeo Panday's account of how his total gross prime ministerial income of TT$1 million over a six year period yielded at least TT$5.5 million in a London bank account was described as "a miracle of biblical proportions," reports The Trinidad Guardian (July 25, 2002).
This annual horse and camel fair is of biblical proportions. A mammoth 200,000 people and 50,000 camels, cattle and horses crowd the banks of Pushkar lake on Kartik Poornima, a spot believed to be the very centre of the creation of the world.
Hours of tender, loving care are invested in each of these works of art to provide you with an experience of biblical proportions." (www.plaguedomes.com)
State Department estimates, some 17,000 boys were separated from their families and fled southern Sudan in an exodus of biblical proportions after fighting intensified in 1987.
When natural disasters occur sometimes they are described as "of biblical proportions" or apocalyptic.