road to Damascus | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,oftenattributive)An important point in someone's life where a great change, orreversal, ofideasorbeliefsoccurs.2007March 5, Jim Brown, quotingMike Huckabee, “Huckabee criticizes fellow GOP candidates over 'Damascus Road conversions'”, inOne News Now‎[1], archived fromthe originalon8 March 2007:Today we hear a lot about those who have had what's often calledRoad to Damascusexperiences on every issue from guns and same-sex marriage to the sanctity-of-life and taxes.2007March 18, Will Hodgkinson, quotingBryan Ferry, “Soundtrack of my life: Bryan Ferry”, inThe Observer‎[2]:[…]That was myRoad to Damascusmoment. They played one hit after another and this is the song I remember most clearly.2010February 14,Vernon Jones, quotee,The Atlanta Journal and Constitution:The candidate is aggressively branding himself as Vernon 2.0, a kinder, gentler Vernon Jones, a bridge builder, a fence mender. Asked by a Rockdale editor about his “road to Damascusmoment,” Jones laughs. “I got knocked off my donkey,” he says.2025April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, inThe Guardian‎[3]:One of his biographers, the journalist Paul Vallely, suggested that, in reflecting during this period of exile on his own record under the junta, Francis experienced aroad to Damascusmoment, and thereafter became a more radical, fearless and outspoken priest. As pope he said on more than one occasion, “the truth is that I’m a sinner” and that as provincial he had had to learn from “my errors along the way”

Examples:

EN: To me Jesus spoke on the road to Damascus.
ES: Para mí, Jesús habló en el camino de Damasco.
EN: He was my road to Damascus!
ES: ¡Fue mi camino de Damas!
EN: And on the road to Damascus, just outside the city, in the middle of the day I was struck by a white light that blinded me!
ES: Y en el camino a Damasco, justo afuera de la ciudad, en pleno día ¡fui sorprendido por una luz blanca que me cegó!
ES: Y en el camino a Damasco, justo afuera de la ciudad, en pleno día ¡fui sorprendido por una luz blanca que me cegó!
EN: We're taught that Paul on the road to Damascus, heard the voice of Christ.
ES: Nos enseñaron que Pablo... ... en el camino a Damasco, escuchó la voz de Cristo.
EN: My passion makes me see - like St Paul on the road to Damascus.
ES: Mi pasión me hace ver, como San Pablo en el camino a Damasco.
EN: There's no blinding flash on the road to Damascus.
ES: La gente no cambia. No hay luz cegadora camino de Damasco.
EN: Well, so much for the road to Damascus.
ES: Bueno, ya basta del camino hacia Damasco.
EN: The lightning bolt that transformed Saul to Paul on the road to Damascus.
ES: El rayo que transformó a Saúl en Pablo en el camino de Damasco.
EN: He famously encountered god who appeared to him in a blinding flash on the road to Damascus.
ES: Él encontró el dios célebremente quién le apareció en una llamarada deslumbrante camino a Damasco.
EN: Nor did I find him on the road to Damascus, like St. Paul.
ES: Ni lo encontré en el camino a Damasco, como San Pablo.
EN: So, Paul was named Saul until he saw Jesus on the road to Damascus and changed his ways. That's right! Fellowship hug!
ES: Entonces, Pablo fue llamado Saul hasta que vio a Jesús en el camino de Damasco y cambió de conducta.
EN: Saul on the road to Damascus.
ES: Saúl de camino a Damasco.
EN: Jesus spoke to me on the road to Damascus.
ES: Jesús hablo conmigo en el camino a Damasco.
EN: The road to Damascus, except for me it was the ladies lavatory.
ES: El camino a Damasco, excepto para mí son damas del baño.
EN: It wasn't until Saint Paul was struck blind by lightning on the road to Damascus... that he saw his higher calling.
ES: No fue sino hasta que San Pablo fue cegado por un rayo en el camino a Damasco que vio su llamado divino.

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