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kjc0123 | 13:37 Fri 31st Dec 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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What's the meaning of the phrase "past is prologue" in the following sentences?

California's prisoner backup is building, with seventeen thousand inmates due for parole consideration. If past is prologue, fewer than ten inmates will get out.

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A rather poetic way of saying "to forget the past is to repeat it".  The past experience should be an indicator (in some cases) of what's to come...
14:46 Fri 31st Dec 2004
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it means - hi kay jay happy new year! - if the past is anything to go by, then fewer than.......

This is not a phrase I am familiar with, being British, and means that prologue can be used in the sense of precedent. This is not so in Northern English. The other thing is that it is given in the English spelling. The ue is normally omitted in words like catalogue

  

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