Rachel Nguyen
2020-11-19 03:11
Shot heard 'round the world British American noun phrase
Britain Fires a Shot Heard ’Round the World. (A headline in The Wall Street Journal referring to the results of the British referendum on Brexit in 2016)
In a December 2010 article in The New York Times, EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow described the unprecedented online activism in support of Julian Assange by the collective Anonymous during Operation Payback as "the shot heard round the world — this is Lexington."
Schoolhouse Rock! used "Shot Heard Round the World" as the title for their episode describing the American Revolution.
To remain influential in a particular situation or a particular group of people for a long time
If a story, event, or announcement has a sting in its/the tail, it seems pleasant at first but contains a surprising and unpleasant part at the end.
1. To be severely judged or criticized
2. To be attacked by gunshots
It is inevitable that good experiences will eventually end.
To kill someone or oneself by shooting in the head.
The phrase is originally from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837) and referred to the first shot of the American Revolutionary War. According to Emerson's poem, this pivotal shot occurred at the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, where the first British soldiers killed in the battles of Lexington and Concord fell down.
In Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly known as the British Commonwealth and which is mostly made up of countries that were formerly part of the British Empire), the phrase "shot heard round the world" has become associated with Serbian Gavrilo Princip's assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, an event considered to be one of the immediate causes of World War I. Princip fired two shots, the first hitting Franz Ferdinand's wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, and the second hitting the Archduke himself. The death of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, propelled Austria-Hungary and the rest of Europe into what was then known as the "Great War" and would eventually become known as World War I.
In American baseball, the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" (usually spelled with an apostrophe) denotes the game-winning walk-off home run by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds to win the National League pennant at 3:58 p.m. EST on October 3, 1951. As a result of the "shot", the Giants won the game 5-4, defeating their traditional rivals in their pennant playoff series, 2 games to 1, though they eventually lost the World Series to the Yankees.
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