Twenty-twenty hindsight
twenty-four seven
twenty-twenty hindsight
Knowledge after the fact, as in With twenty-twenty hindsight, I wouldn’t have bought these tickets. This idiom uses twenty-twenty in the optometrist’s sense, that is, “indicating normal vision,” and hindsight in the sense of “looking back” or “reconsidering.” [ First half of 1900s ]
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