Idiom
shot heard round the world
Meaning
Any cataclysmic event
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The sudden market crash was a shot heard round the world.”
“When the popular social media platform shut down unexpectedly, it was a shot heard round the world for digital businesses everywhere.”
“The unexpected resignation of the long-serving prime minister acted as a shot heard round the world, triggering political instability across the entire continent.”
Examples
simple
“The sudden market crash was a shot heard round the world.”
contextual
“When the popular social media platform shut down unexpectedly, it was a shot heard round the world for digital businesses everywhere.”
complex
“The unexpected resignation of the long-serving prime minister acted as a shot heard round the world, triggering political instability across the entire continent.”
Origin
From the 1837 poem Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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