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synonyms for when push comes to shove
- climax
- critical point
- crux
- culmination
- juncture
- twist
- axis
- change
- climacteric
- contingency
- crisis
- critical mass
- critical moment
- critical period
- crossing
- crossroads
- crucial moment
- crucial occurrence
- crucial period
- crunch
- cusp
- decisive moment
- defining moment
- development
- emergency
- exigency
- high noon
- hinge
- kairotic moment
- moment of truth
- nexus
- pass
- peak
- peripeteia
- pinch
- pivot
- pivotal moment
- point of no return
- race against time
- rising action
- shift
- strait
- transition
- turn of the tide
- zero hour
- climax
- crunch
- defining moment
- turning point
- charged moment
- crucial moment
- decisive moment
- fated moment
- fateful moment
- kairos
- kairotic moment
- pregnant moment
- climax
- crossroads
- crunch
- defining moment
- moment of truth
- turning point
- terminus
- Rubicon
- decisive moment
- match point
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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It is most peculiar, and when he plays that way, the most bewitching little expression comes over his face.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYEach day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONSometimes it comes in literal sobriety, sometimes in derisive travesti, sometimes in tragic aggravation.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUAll the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTBut it seems to me that with adolescence comes the right to knowledge and the right of judgment.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSIt seems to be a true instinct which comes before education and makes education possible.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSSomething remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODThe sense of bearing on to the voice, or endeavoring to push the tone by any pressure whatever, should be absolutely avoided.
EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICKI would not trust their removal to any other hand, and so, the panel comes out without a shake.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANUWORDS RELATED TO WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE
- axis
- change
- climacteric
- climax
- contingency
- crisis
- critical mass
- critical moment
- critical period
- critical point
- crossing
- crossroads
- crucial moment
- crucial occurrence
- crucial period
- crunch
- crux
- culmination
- cusp
- decisive moment
- defining moment
- development
- emergency
- exigency
- high noon
- hinge
- juncture
- kairotic moment
- moment of truth
- nexus
- pass
- peak
- peripeteia
- pinch
- pivot
- pivotal moment
- point of no return
- race against time
- rising action
- shift
- strait
- transition
- turn of the tide
- twist
- when push comes to shove
- zero hour
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.