twenty-twenty hindsight

idiom

variants or 20/20 hindsight
: the full knowledge and complete understanding that one has about an event only after it has happened
With 20/20 hindsight we now see where our strategy went wrong.

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“Twenty-twenty hindsight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twenty-twenty%20hindsight. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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