What is the meaning of flood tide?

noun

  • The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding.
    • usage: "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success"
  • 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
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