l'esprit d'escalier

Saturday, July 01, 2006

I must go comfort him.

England's John Terry acknowledges the crowd after Portugal defeated England in their World Cup 2006 quarter-final soccer match in Gelsenkirchen July 1, 2006.

posted by AuntT @ 7/01/2006 08:01:00 PM

the thing you wish you'd said

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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.