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hind-sight, ˈhindsight
1. a. (hind-sight) The backsight of a rifle.
1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xxi, When you squint through her hind-sights. 1889Farmer Americanisms.
b. to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off: to dispose of or demolish completely. U.S. colloq.
1834W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 21 As sure as you saw the fire at the muzzle of his gun, so sure he knocked the creter's hind sight out. 1850L. H. Garrard Wah-To-Yah (1927) xx. 248 They backed their ears preparatory to kicking the hindsights off the first man that struck them. 1872E. Eggleston Hoosier Schoolmaster x. 58 Ef its rendered right, it'll knock the hind sights off of any rheumatiz you ever see. 1892Congress. Rec. 1 Apr. 2843/1 The American producer..can knock the hindsights off the producer anywhere else on the face of the earth. 1954in J. A. Weingarten Amer. Dict. Slang 186/2.
2. (ˈhindsight) Seeing what has happened, and what ought to have been done, after the event; perception gained by looking backward: opp. to foresight.
1883Jrnl. Educ. XVII. 264 That a school-man so preternaturally gifted with ‘hind-sight’ should have been so defective in ‘fore-sight’. 1895A. T. Mahan in Century Mag. Aug. 631/2 Open to the proverbial retort that hindsight is always better than foresight. |