WordNet
adv. at the appropriate time; "we'll get to this question in due course" [syn: in due course, in due season, in good time, in due time]
Usage examples of "when the time comes".
He's in training now he'll be able to rattle through the service like an old hand when the time comes.
I wont tell you any more, so you can imagine it, so you can have it unrehearsed when the time comes, as it will, as it does come.
You are one person the party might be willing to rally 'round, when the time comes.
Meanwhile it seems to me we'll see him able to rule, when the time comes, and perhaps more than just the duchy.
He had purposely left in his room a dressing-bag--the sort of article one is likely to forget in the hurry of departure from one's house, and so certain to remember when the time comes to finally prepare for settling in another.
But that will give you trouble when the time comes to write the summer assignment essay.
What I desire you to understand, Monsieur de Lesperon, is that if I go to Toulouse alone, when the time comes to proclaim myself, and it is found that I am not Rene de Lesperon, of Lesperon in Gascony, they will assume that you are dead, and there will be no count against me.
Wherefore I humbly pray you that God's will and mine may be also yours, and that you pronounce your benison thereon, that therewith, having the more firm assurance of the favour of Him, whose vicar you are, we may both live together, and, when the time comes, die to God's glory and yours.
Merlin tells me that this is no problem, though, for he will summon a strand of gossamer when the time comes for us to cross over.
Mooncloud's lab work may help you make a more informed choice when the time comes.
As keel plate owners, we have a great deal to live up to as we build on the tradition entrusted to our keeping, but I know that when the time comes for me to pass this ship into another captain’.
As keel plate owners, we have a great deal to live up to as we build on the tradition entrusted to our keeping, but I know that when the time comes for me to pass this ship into another captain's keeping, he or she will have even more to live up to than we do now.