the rest is history

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used when you are telling a story to say that you do not need to tell the end of it, because everyone knows it already

   The rest is history.

   Stark pays and the rest is history.

In the movies · 1

• Stark pays and the rest is history.Zero Effect1998
• The rest is history.The End of the Tour2015
• The rest is history.The Man from Earth2007
• And the rest was history.I'm Thinking of Ending Things2020
• The rest, of course - history.The Omen1976
• You need to rest up for the history fair tomorrow. Go home.Leo2023
• And, as the saying goes, The rest is history. On october the first,Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief2015

Learn it in full scenes

• The End of the Tour2015
  • Lipsky Pitches the Wallace Story
  • Dave Wallace Doesn't Drink
  • Wallace and Lipsky First Meeting

From the same entry

• and the rest
• and the rest
• at rest
• come to rest
• for the rest
• give it a rest
• give a rest
• lay to rest
• lay to rest
• put mind at ease
• no peace for the wicked
• rest assured