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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “to pass to (the) history”.
Verb
passàre alla storia (first-person singular present pàsso alla storia, first-person singular past historic passài alla storia, past participle passàto alla storia, auxiliary èssere)
- (idiomatic) to go down in history
2020, Barack Obama, chapter 14, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:Seduto da solo nel mio appartamento seminterrato, a qualche chilometro da Harvard Square, la faccia incollata alla TV di seconda mano, assistevo al dispiegarsi di quella che poi sarebbe passata alla storia come la Rivoluzione di velluto.- I recalled sitting alone in my basement apartment a few miles from Harvard Square, glued to my secondhand TV set as I watched what would come to be known as the Velvet Revolution unfold.
- (literally, “Sitting down alone in my basement apartment, a few kilometres away from Harvard Square, my face glued to the secondhand TV, I witnessed the unfolding of what would then have gone down in history as the Velvet Revolution.”)