go\ down\ in\ history

go\ down\ in\ history
• go down in history
• go down in the records
v. phr.
To be remembered or recorded for always.

The lives of great men go down in history.

Babe Ruth went down in history as a home run hitter.

The boy's straight A's for four years of college went down in the records.

The President said that the day the war ended would go down in history.


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