come to a head
also bring sth to a headIf something comes to a head or someone brings something to a head, a situation reaches a point where something must be done about it:
Things hadn't been good between us for a while and this incident just brought it to a head.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Coming to an end
- come off
- come off sth
- come out
- come to a full stop idiom
- come to sth
- come to the end of the road idiom
- culminate
- dry up
- fizzle
- head
- land
- land up
- lapse
- let
- let up
- peter
- peter out
- road
- run
- wind up
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