hindsight
/ˈhʌɪn(d)sʌɪt
/noun [mass noun]
Understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed: with hindsight, I should never have gone...
- Playing through Iron Storm was like looking back in hindsight on a historical event.
- With hindsight, we know how his moral instinct trumped the evidence for the war and its legality.
- Many times I look back in hindsight and think of how I should have handled a situation.
- be (or get) across something
- be (or get) dialled in
- be (or get) lost in the shuffle
- be (or get) mixed up in
- be (or get) mixed up with
- be (or get) shut of
- be (or go) on the lash
- be (or go) on the piss
- be (or go) on the shicker
- be (or have a) down on
- be (or have something) written all over one (or one's face)
- be (or look) a picture
- be (or make) friends with
- be (or make) so bold (as to do something)
- be (or put oneself) in another person's shoes
- be (or stand) in awe of
- Beothuk
- be out of here (or there)
- be out of (or have gone out with) the ark
- be out on one's ear
- be over
- Beowulf
- be part and parcel of
- be party (or a party) to
- be poles apart