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go down in history en · VERB

Meanings

1. Be sufficiently noteworthy as to be remembered by future generations.
   • "Don't be a turd," Freddi says. "Don't be a Tones Turd." / "If telling the truth makes a man a turd, then a turd I shall be." / "Yeah," Freddi says. "You'll go down in history. Tones the Truth-Telling Turd. Kids will learn about you in school." 2014, Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 56:
   • Mr Johnson was elected Prime Minister to get Brexit done. […] His single most important task for the rest of his term in office is to hold the Union together. If he fails, he will go down in history not as the man who freed the United Kingdom, but as the man who destroyed it. 2021 April 15, “From United Kingdom to Untied Kingdom”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
   • Captain Stuart Hogg and his team will now go down in history as the side who were able to slay England in their own den, emulating Jim Aitken’s heroes of ’83. 2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman:
   • I think of things that I might be / I see my name go down in history 1977, David Byrne, “Pulled Up”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:
   • Many of the dead were never identified simply because whole families died together and there was no one left to say who they were. One woman, named Elizabeth Stride, claimed to have been one of the survivors of the sinking, although there was no proof of this. She would later go down in history as the third victim of Jack the Ripper. 2018 September 14, Derek Coleman, “Old superstition comes true with tragic consequences”, in AP News, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2023:
   • Not many of the great composers have gone down in history as having taken part as one of the principals in a duel. Among them, perhaps this honor must be awarded solely to Händel. The cause of this affair was to be found in one of the curious customs of his day. 1896, Willey Francis Gates, Anecdotes of Great Musicians, 151.—Händel's Duel:

Forms

Synonyms

make history

Translations (15)

ca passar a la història (Translations) · pt entrar para a história (Translations) · es hacer historia (Translations) · pt entrar pra história (Translations) · fr faire date (Translations) · pt fazer história (Translations) · sv gå till historien (Translations) · de in die Geschichte eingehen (Translations) · fr faire époque (Translations) · pl przechodzić do historii (Translations) · ru войти́ в исто́рию (Translations) · fr entrer dans l'histoire (Translations) · fi jäädä historiaan (Translations) · pl przejść do historii (Translations) · it passare alla storia (Translations)