flood tide

Noun

• 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
    

• the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
  • the climax of the artist's career
    
  • in the flood tide of his success
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  flood , rising tide , climax