Chuck Stroup requests:
Could you please add “past history“, as in ‘the gunman had a past history of violence’ or ‘the patient has a past history of cardiac problems‘. Is this to avoid confusion with their ‘future history’? It is just history!!!! Grrrr…..
the reciprocal of this is “future plans”
“When asked about his future plans, Bloggins answered that he was still working on his plans for last year.”
(is perhaps a nonsense sentence that illustrates)
A reporter using this phrase is indicating that he had a history of violence past to the most recent incident. Any person in the news for being a gunman obviously has a current history of violence ( i.e. he just shot someone) what is revealing is that before he shot someone he had been known to be violent.
A reporter using this phrase is indicating that he had a history of violence past to the most recent incident. Any person in the news for being a gunman obviously has a current history of violence ( i.e. he just shot someone) what is revealing is that before he shot someone he had been known to be violent.