and the rest is history

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> "And the rest is history" seems to have been used from the early  1930s.

The OED added this phrase to the _history_ entry in 2003.  The first use
given there is dated 1877.

Fred Shapiro


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