Meanings of became a classic in English

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho pushed the boundaries and became a classic whilst doing so.

It was a huge success and became a classic.

His first volume of prose essays, Less Than One, published in 1986, quickly became a classic.

It became a classic cinema moment.

It was later adapted for the screen by Tony Richardson and became a classic of British New Wave cinema.

Battle raged until eventually our management caved in and we cut another version for Columbia, which became a classic.

He chose for his subject the Fall of Man, and the address he gave became a classic in all Australasia.

There was, for instance, the episode of the "turkey-red table-cover", which became a classic in their later lives.

In 1989, Xtra vision was floated on the Irish stock market and became a classic "boom and bust" stock.

In 1682, one hundred and thirty years after Xavier's death, appeared his biography by Father Bouhours; and this became a classic.

One of them, South-east Asia On A Shoestring, became a classic handbook of rebellion when the world was still difficult to circumnavigate.

The masterpiece was the first volume of Tocqueville's Democracy in America, which transformed how people viewed the emerging nation and instantly became a classic.

Watership Down, a story Richard Adams made up to scare his kids in the car, was rejected seven times before it became a classic.

After Rashi's commentaries became a classic wherever there were Jews, the laazim were often translated into a foreign language, as into German or Italian.