finest hour, one's
finest hour, one's the time of one's greatest achievement; now particularly associated with a speech of 18 June 1940 during the Battle of Britain by Winston Churchill, ‘If the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘.This was their finest hour.’. ’
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