the moment of truth
an occasion when something important happens that tests someone or something and that will have an effect on the future:
Lift-off is always the moment of truth for a new rocket.
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Turning points & deciding moments
- be at a crossroads idiom
- boiling point
- breakthrough
- brink
- climax
- coming of age
- crunch
- defining moment
- edge
- if/when it comes to the crunch idiom
- landmark
- make-or-break
- milestone
- red-letter day
- road
- road to Damascus idiom
- turning point
- U-turn
- volte-face
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