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Feb 24, 2014 · Feb 24, 2014. #4. Check the Google Ngrams chart for the relative frequency of both terms. (Summary: "in hindsight" is far more common.) I suspect that people who use "on" are thinking of it as a marker of time, and mean, roughly, "on looking back." G.
A: Hindsight is most commonly used in a sentence such as: 'In hindsight, that was probably a bad move.'. Or 'In hindsight, I should have replied sooner'. View more answers. Q: Please show me example sentences with ' hindsight is 20/20'. A: This expression is used when you realize your mistake after you have already finished the task.
Mar 13, 2007 · Member Emeritus. Southern England. English - England. Mar 13, 2007. #3. I think I use 'in hindsight' adjectivally: the year in hindsight. and 'with hindsight' adverbially: With hindsight (or 'with the benefit of hindsight ') I would have done things differently. R.
Oct 30, 2007 · bon jour. Je cherche un moyen de dire « hindsight is 20-20 », je ne pense pas que « la vue arrière est vingt à vingt » a le même sens qu’en anglais. Est-ce qu’il y a une meilleure expression ? Peut-être « la vue arrière est toujours plus claire que le chemin devant ». merci beaucoup!
Đồng nghĩa với with hindsight It's quite tricky to distinguish unless you use it regularly. Hindsight meaning: understanding a situation after it has happened or you've got new information. With hindsight - what someone thinks they should have done with the information. Example: With hindsight, I should have taken the job. (The new information makes them think they SHOULD have taken the ...
May 24, 2012 · Well, it means exactly what it says if you know what it means to say. If you haven't heard this saying before, then it's ambiguous, as lucas-sp pointed out in post 3. It could mean: Hindsight is better (more accurate) than foresight. Hindsight is better (more desirable) than foresight. Having not heard the saying before, and seeing only the ...
Mar 3, 2011 · Mar 3, 2011. #1. Hello, what does "with the benefit of hindsight" mean in the following sentence? "It has been subject to many major changes-- changes that we now take for granted and that, with the benefit of hindsight, most people would view as progress." Does it simply mean, "with hindsight/ in retrospect" ?
Apr 1, 2020 · Synonym for hindsight Hindsight is when you gain understanding of a situation only after it as occurred. Eg: In hindsight, it would have been better to buy the tickets earlier. An afterthought is exactly that: a thought that comes after something has passed and is often of lesser consequence. Eg: She began to walk away, only to turn around and say goodbye as an afterthought. (I don’t know if ...
May 1, 2006 · The most colloquial use of 20/20 hindsight, at least where I am from, is in the expression "Hindsight is always 20/20." A: The manager should have changed pitchers on the 5th. If I were him, I would have switched to a setupper. B: Well, hindsight is always 20/20. By the way, I always have 20/20 hindsight about drinking and driving.
Mar 15, 2021 · In retrospect/hindsight, I realise this was not the case. In retrospect/hindsight, it occurs to me that…. But you’re trying to apply the expression to “many” (in the third person). Therefore both examples sound a bit unnatural with that phrase at the beginning of the sentence, implying that the speaker’s viewpoint is meant, as is usual.
