the rest is history
2
4.4
- idiom
- Informal
:
y el resto es historia
- And the rest is history.
I started earning money and the rest is history.
- I started earning money and the rest is history.
- And then they got it in, I mean, and the rest is history, right?
- And Despite that, the program caught on and, and the rest is history.
- So we were kind of like a little team for that whole day and the rest is history, Shalako says.
- And we bought go karts and the rest is history.
- But then Pontius Pilots happened and yeah, the rest is history.
- And that's when National Crime Squad got involved and, and the rest is history, right.
- If they connect, they'll start kissing and then the rest is history.
- We both placed a massive order on Bare Essentials makeup and the rest is history.
- Then Manafort set up a meeting with Mike Pence and the rest is history, just like the Republican Party.
- So you said get him a week and they got me a week and the rest is history.
- From that day, even before the season start, I know I will make it and the rest is history.
- And from the just that description, I, I came up with this and the rest is history.
- And one day I decided to start posting covers on YouTube and the rest is history.
Examples
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"It was Anna, and as they say, the rest is history."
Fiction book (1991) -
At the age of 3, Ryan received an NES from a relative, and the rest is history.
Blog text (31) -
And the rest is history.
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Giving up points in the first quarter for the first time all year woke the team up, and the rest was history.
Blog text (31) -
Ross and Rachel ended up being far more interesting to write, and the rest is history.
Blog text (31) -
And the rest is history, albeit a rocky one.
Academic text (2009) -
Then Manafort set up a meeting with Mike Pence and the rest is history, just like the Republican Party.
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After modest success as an Elvis-style rocker, the singer now named Conway Twitty began performing country music in 1968, and the rest is history.
Academic text (2018) -
And so, as you know, the rest is history, dear.
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We fixed it, and then the rest is history.
Synonyms
35
6.1
That shows the work is finished or the result is ready
How Well-Known
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal parts ('rest' = remainder; 'history' = past events) give a loose clue that the remaining events became part of the past/known, so a learner might infer something about what followed. However, the phrase functions as a conventional discourse marker meaning 'and then the well-known outcome followed' and this pragmatic, conventionalized use is not fully predictable from the words alone.
Etymology
The phrase the rest is history comes from storytellers who would stop after the key event because what happened next was already well known, as if the rest was already 'history'. So we now say it to mean 'what happened next is well known'.