20 past seven means the same as 20 minutes after 7 or 7:20
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It mean that you can look in the past (hindsight) and see what you did wrong. Perfect vision is 20/20. So as you look back, you're able to see "perfectly" what you should have done. "Hindsight is 20/20"
It is 20 years. So in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, "four score and seven years ago" is 87 years--he was referring to 1776.
10:55
"20 past X" is translated " X heures vingt " in French.