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twenty-twenty hindsight

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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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twenty-twenty play

  1. : meeting a standard of normal visual acuity

  2. : marked by facilely accurate discernment, judgment, or assessment

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hindsight play

  1. : perception of the nature of an event after it has happened

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