shot heard round the world

Meaning

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
  • Any cataclysmic event

Origin

  • From the 1837 poem Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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