staircase wit

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The thinking of an idea or course of action too late to use it effectively, or the tendency to do so. idiomatic,rare,uncountable
    — When I have completed a manuscript, if I lay it away in a drawer or pigeon-hole, it lies there quietly enough, and my mind seems wholly discharged of it. But if I mail it, I straightaway find myself tormented with "staircase wit" in the shape of emendations.

词源

Calque of French esprit de l'escalier.
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