hindsight

recul, rétrospective

Meilleure compréhension d’une situation passée grâce à la connaissance de ce qui s’est produit ensuite.

En anglais simple : Understanding a past situation better because you now know what happened afterwards.

• In hindsight, I was wrong.
• With hindsight, the warning signs seem obvious.
• It's easy to criticize their choices with the benefit of hindsight.

Comment l'utiliser : in hindsight (In hindsight, we should have left earlier.); with the benefit of hindsight (With the benefit of hindsight, that decision seems unwise.)

Synonymes : retrospect

Contraires : foresight

Expressions courantes : in hindsight, with hindsight, benefit of hindsight