be history

be history (informal)

To be finished, gone, dead, etc, as in he's history

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Main Entry: ↑history

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be history phrase

to no longer affect you, or to no longer exist

Our results in the past are history. What’s important is the match tomorrow.

Thesaurus: finished and completed_synonym to kill a person or animal_synonym

Main entry: history

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be perceived as no longer relevant to the present

the mainframe will soon be history | I was making a laughingstock of myself, but that's history now

■ informal used to indicate imminent departure, dismissal, or death

an inch either way and you'd be history

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be ˈhistory idiom

(informal) to be dead or no longer important

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Another mistake like that and you're history.

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We won't talk about that— that's history.

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That's

past history

now.

Main entry: ↑history_idiom