job backwards

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen. intransitive
    — They maintain that Sir William has "jobbed backwards"; that people who invested in the mines were indulging in a speculation, and that because the speculation has failed the whole matter has been considered by Sir William as if it concerned […]

词形变化

jobs backwards present,singular,third-person jobbing backwards participle,present jobbed backwards participle,past jobbed backwards past
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