be (only) a matter of time
C1 If it is (only) a matter of time until something happens, it is certain to happen but you do not know when it will happen:
It's only a matter of time before he's forced to resign.
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Inevitable
- all roads lead to Rome idiom
- automatic
- automatically
- be damned if you do and damned if you don't idiom
- be nothing for it idiom
- be part and parcel of sth idiom
- carve
- doom
- fate
- fated
- implacable
- inalienable
- inexorable
- it can't be helped idiom
- matter
- relentless
- remorseless
- seal
- seal sb's fate idiom
- unstoppable
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