l'esprit d'escalier

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l'esprit d'escalier (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of l'esprit de l'escalier
    • 2014, Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart (A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 173:
      'That's understandable,' said May, 'we get it all the time. L'esprit d'escalier—remembering what you should have said too late.'
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