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
Asenneth-Biblical Greek
Sabina[sə'bainə]
Vipin-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam
Judith['dʒu:diθ]
LarrieLER-ee, LAR-eeEnglish
Vishal-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali