Idiom
sweet hereafter
Meaning
Heaven; paradise as enjoyed in the afterlife.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“They believe they will meet again in the sweet hereafter.”
“The old man spoke peacefully about his life, saying he was ready for the sweet hereafter.”
“The poet wrote movingly of a world beyond our own, where all earthly suffering finds rest in the sweet hereafter.”
Examples
simple
“They believe they will meet again in the sweet hereafter.”
contextual
“The old man spoke peacefully about his life, saying he was ready for the sweet hereafter.”
complex
“The poet wrote movingly of a world beyond our own, where all earthly suffering finds rest in the sweet hereafter.”
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