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the rest is history

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the rest is history

everyone knows what happened next The Beatles toured the US, made records, had zillions of groupies, and the rest is history.

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the rest is history

something that you say when you do not need to finish a story because everyone knows what happened The Beatles signed a recording contract in 1962 and the rest is history.

See There's no peace for the wicked!

See also: history, rest