Definder - what does the word mean?

What is History repeating itself?

(n.) Any unfortunate event that closely resembles a prior one, that could have been avoided had people payed attention to history.

The Conservative governments' idea to re-introduce poll tax in the 80s was history repeating itself, as the peasants revolted as they did over 600 years before. Only now, they had workers' unions and a mortgage.

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