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the only flawless vision you get, arriving precisely too late to use it
means the ability to understand a situation or event only after it has already happened, when its causes and consequences have become obvious
from A transparent compound of "hind" (meaning behind or at the back, the same word found in hindquarters and hindmost) and "sight." It began quite literally as a marksmanship term — the "hind sight" being the rear sight on a firearm, paired with the foresight at the muzzle, the two lined up to aim. From that mechanical sense it drifted, by the 19th century, into the figurative "looking backward" meaning we use today, neatly mirroring its older sibling "foresight," which had long meant looking ahead.
- perfect score
- Always 20/20, never on time
- hindsight bias
- Brains rewrite memory to feel it was obvious
- ancient gripe
- Greek tragedy ran entirely on it
- cheap genius
- Makes everyone a prophet after the fact
- unbeatable advisor
- Right every time, useful zero times
financial crisis 2008 inquiry — post-crisis investigations showing housing bubble warnings were ignored in 2007-2008