December 2010
5 posts
I GOT NERVOUS WHEN I COULDN'T FIND MY DEBIT CARD...
I LIKE IT WHEN I RUB MY EYES AND GET MASCARA AND...
L'esprit de l'escalier
youmightfindyourself:
L’esprit de l’escalier (or l’esprit d’escalier, usually translated as “staircase wit”) is the act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it. The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult or any witty remark that comes to mind too late to be useful, after one has left the scene of the encounter. The phenomenon is usually accompanied...