to be wise after the event
mainly UKused to mean that it is easy to understand what you could have done to prevent something bad from happening after it has happened:
In retrospect, we should have insisted on checking his calculations, but it's easy to be wise after the event.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wise and sensible
- an old/a wise head on young shoulders idiom
- be a victory for common sense idiom
- canny
- discerning
- discriminating
- far-sighted
- gnomic
- legitimacy
- neatly
- no flies on sb idiom
- no-nonsense
- out of the mouths of babes (and sucklings) idiom
- perspective
- responsible
- right-minded
- sagacious
- sage
- savoir-faire
- wise
- wisely
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