Meaning of go down in history | Babel Free

Definitions

Be sufficiently noteworthy as to be remembered by future generations.

Equivalents

Examples

“I think of things that I might be / I see my name go down in history”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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