point of no return
noun [S]Definition
› the stage at which it is no longer possible to stop what you are doing and when its effects cannot now be avoided or prevented: Russia, he said, had reached the point of no return on the road to reform and had to go forward. Scientists fear that global warming has gone beyond the point of no return.Turning points and deciding moments
(Definition of point of no return noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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