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Значение идиомы go down in history
[go down in history] or [go down in the records] {v. phr.} To beremembered or recorded for always.
The lives of great men go downin 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 therecords.
The President said that the day the war ended would godown in history.
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