twenty-twenty hindsight

Slang definitions & phrases for twenty-twenty hindsight

twenty-twenty hindsight

noun phrase

Perfect foresight of what has already been seen: observers empowered with 20-20 hindsight wanted to know (1962+)

Idioms and Phrases with 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 ]