l'esprit d'escalier

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Of course, I'm rooting for England!

Maybe I'll have time to post something in two weeks.
For now, I'm in football heaven!

posted by AuntT @ 6/25/2006 08:01:00 PM

the thing you wish you'd said

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Max it out, we dare ya!

For your edification

"L’esprit d’escalier" doesn’t really have a phrase with the same meaning in English, but the literal translation is “the wit of the stairs.” It is when you have just walked away from an argument or discussion where you’ve been kind of shocked or stumped, then you think of the perfect thing that you didn’t say, but it is too late; your wit didn't catch up to you until you were already on the stairs.