Just Desserts

Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a large scope for our particular talent.  Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have gotten about as bad as they can reasonably get.

-- Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL (1937 -), Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)