shot heard round the world
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Etymology
From the 1837 poem Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Phrase
- The opening volleys of the Battles of Lexington and Concord during the American Revolution.
- A 1951 home run by Bobby Thompson of the New York Giants
- (idiomatic) Any cataclysmic event
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