shot heard round the world

短语

别名

shot heard 'round the world

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    The opening volleys of the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution.

  2. 2.

    A 1951 home run by Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants

  3. 3.

    Any cataclysmic event

    习语

词源

From the 1837 poem Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

来源：wiktionary