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单词 the rest is history
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the rest is history
c. the rest is history: the events succeeding those related are so familiar, well-known, or predictable as to need no repetition; no more need be said.Occasionally with modifying word specifying the sphere of activity to which the events relate.
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1839 J. Wade Brit. Hist. 789/1 He had been confined to his chamber..and on the 15th April began making his will... The rest is history, of which Napoleon is now almost as much a portion as Cæsar or Hannibal.
1877 New Orleans Times 12 June 4/1 The [Tammany] ring was broken at last! The rest is history. Harry Genet died miserably. Woodward was caught. Connelly is a homeless wanderer.
1901 Science 6 Dec. 875/1 The engagement was quickly made. Rowland was sent to Europe to study laboratories and purchase apparatus, and the rest is history.
1939 W. L. Phelps Autobiogr. with Lett. ci. 896 The next year she was ranked third among the women players of the United States, and the year following she was Champion. The rest is history.
1994 Fine Cooking Feb. 31/3 When the strike ended, the reinstated Danish bakers learned the pastry secrets of the Viennese bakers, and the rest is gastronomic history.
2000 J. Caughie Television Drama i. 51 The BBC poached Newman from ABC in 1963 to lead it into its Golden Age, and the rest is history.
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