| Word | the end of civilization as we know it |
|---|---|
| Description | the complete collapse of ordered society used to indicate that someone is being alarmist or is overreacting to a trivial inconvenience or blunder as if it were enormously significant and catastrophic This expression is supposedly a cinematic cliché and was actually used in the film Citizen Kane (1941) : a project which would mean the end of civilization as we know it. 1999 - Select - The giant, dreadlocked rapper's third album contains extensive deliberations on the end of civilisation as we know it. the complete collapse of ordered society used to indicate that someone is being alarmist or is overreacting to a trivial inconvenience or blunder as if it were enormously significant and catastrophic This expression is supposedly a cinematic cliché and was actually used in the film Citizen Kane (1941) : a project which would mean the end of civilization as we know it. 1999 - Select - The giant, dreadlocked rapper's third album contains extensive |
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