road to Damascus experience
n.— «I refer to it as a “road to Damascus” experience.…When they hear that sound, they realize they have never heard anything like it before, and it absolutely changes their life.» —“Big money, big speakers, big sound” by Steven Church News Journal (Del.) Apr. 24, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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