hour of cause
English
Noun
hour of cause (plural hours of cause)
- (Scotland) A time of trial or difficulty.
- 1875, Alexander Pyne, Reminiscences of Colonial Life
- How sad my case, then, when my hour of cause arrived, and I could lay my hands absolutely on nothing that I could carry away, and very little to eat.
- 1875, Alexander Pyne, Reminiscences of Colonial Life