go down in history
idiom
: to be remembered as a very important person or event
The discovery of the structure of DNA will go down in history.
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Anthony Fauci will go down in history as the first government scientist to be preemptively pardoned for a crime.
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Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
May 2025 will go down in history as the month when agentic software development was truly unleashed upon the world.
—Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Whomever gets this done will go down in history as the person that solved the social security crisis.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
In many ways, this has been as woeful a season as many Spurs watchers can remember, and yet this team still have a chance to completely flip the narrative in Bilbao and go down in history among the club’s most iconic sides.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 20 May 2025
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Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
May 2025 will go down in history as the month when agentic software development was truly unleashed upon the world.
—Jason Andersen, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Whomever gets this done will go down in history as the person that solved the social security crisis.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
In many ways, this has been as woeful a season as many Spurs watchers can remember, and yet this team still have a chance to completely flip the narrative in Bilbao and go down in history among the club’s most iconic sides.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 20 May 2025
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“Go down in history.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20down%20in%20history. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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