be history



be history

1. To be dead, destroyed, or in deep trouble after something negative happens. Almost always used in a figurative sense. I just got bad news from the auto repair shop—my car is history. You'll be history once the principal finds out you plagiarized that paper.
2. To be a thing of the past; to be no longer relevant. A: "I thought that you didn't get along with Jenny." B: "Oh, that's history! We're friends now." Can you please clean out all this junk? Cassette tapes are history, and there's no reason to keep them!
See also: history

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Halstein-Norwegian
Murchadh-Irish, Scottish
Fatma-Arabic, Turkish, Azerbaijani
VictorVIK-tər (English), veek-TOR (French)English, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, Late Roman
Marita (2)-Swedish, Norwegian
LyndaLIN-dəEnglish