SINCE 1828
twenty-twenty hindsight
idiom
variants:
or 20/20 hindsight
Definition of twenty-twenty 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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