flood tide   (TTS Sound)

The noun flood tide has 2 senses

• climax, flood tide -- (the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success")


• flood tide, flood, rising tide -- (the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare)