20 20 hindsight 成语

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Hindsight is twenty-twenty

After something has gone wrong, it is easy to look back and make criticisms.

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twenty-twenty hindsight

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]

20/20 hindsight

Knowledge of what one should have done, because it is easier to clearly reevaluate past actions or decisions than when they are being made or done. A reference to the visual acuity of normal eyesight (20/20 vision). With 20/20 hindsight, I can see now that having my brother as my legal counsel was unwise. A: "I can't believe I was ever interested in such a self-absorbed jerk." B: "Don't blame yourself. We all have 20/20 hindsight." Of course, with 20-20 hindsight, it's easy to laugh at the quack doctors of the early 19th century, but back then, even legitimate medicine was still largely rooted in superstition and pseudoscience.See also: 20, hindsight

20/20 hindsight

verbSee twenty-twenty hindsightSee also: 20, hindsight

See also:

• hindsight
• 2020
• now or never
• it's now or never
• one and done
• get done with (something)
• there's no time like the present
• no time like the present
• no time like the present, there's
• be one and done