moment of truth

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n., pl., moments of truth.
  1. A critical or decisive time on which much depends; a crucial moment.
  2. Sports. The point in a bullfight at which the matador makes the kill.

[Translation of Spanish el momento de verdad.]


A critical or decisive time, at which one is put to the ultimate test, as in Now that all the bills are in, we've come to the moment of truth--can we afford to live here or not? This expression, a translation of the Spanish el momento de la verdad, signifies the point in a bullfight when the matador makes the kill. It was first used in English in Ernest Hemingway's story Death in the Afternoon (1932).

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