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Feb 24, 2014. #4. Check the Google Ngrams chart for the relative frequency of both terms. (Summary: "in hindsight" is far more common.) I suspect that people who use "on" are thinking of it as a marker of time, and mean, roughly, "on looking back." G.
Mar 13, 2007 · Member Emeritus. Southern England. English - England. Mar 13, 2007. #3. I think I use 'in hindsight' adjectivally: the year in hindsight. and 'with hindsight' adverbially: With hindsight (or 'with the benefit of hindsight ') I would have done things differently. R.
A: Hindsight is most commonly used in a sentence such as: 'In hindsight, that was probably a bad move.'. Or 'In hindsight, I should have replied sooner'. View more answers. Q: Please show me example sentences with ' hindsight is 20/20'. A: This expression is used when you realize your mistake after you have already finished the task.
Dec 7, 2012 · bon jour. Je cherche un moyen de dire « hindsight is 20-20 », je ne pense pas que « la vue arrière est vingt à vingt » a le même sens qu’en anglais. Est-ce qu’il y a une meilleure expression ? Peut-être « la vue arrière est toujours plus claire que le chemin devant ». merci beaucoup!
Đồng nghĩa với with hindsight It's quite tricky to distinguish unless you use it regularly. Hindsight meaning: understanding a situation after it has happened or you've got new information. With hindsight - what someone thinks they should have done with the information. Example: With hindsight, I should have taken the job. (The new information makes them think they SHOULD have taken the ...
Apr 3, 2007 · Hindsight is 20/20. Literally: when you look behind you, you see everything clearly. Proverb: It' easy to explain things that have happened, as opposed to the future. Cherine, your interpretation of the Arabic proverb sounds like this Dutch one: "Dat zijn vijgen na Pasen" ("Those are figs after Easter").
Mar 3, 2011 · Mar 3, 2011. #1. Hello, what does "with the benefit of hindsight" mean in the following sentence? "It has been subject to many major changes-- changes that we now take for granted and that, with the benefit of hindsight, most people would view as progress." Does it simply mean, "with hindsight/ in retrospect" ?
May 24, 2012 · Well, it means exactly what it says if you know what it means to say. If you haven't heard this saying before, then it's ambiguous, as lucas-sp pointed out in post 3. It could mean: Hindsight is better (more accurate) than foresight. Hindsight is better (more desirable) than foresight. Having not heard the saying before, and seeing only the ...
Mar 15, 2021 · In retrospect/hindsight, I realise this was not the case. In retrospect/hindsight, it occurs to me that…. But you’re trying to apply the expression to “many” (in the third person). Therefore both examples sound a bit unnatural with that phrase at the beginning of the sentence, implying that the speaker’s viewpoint is meant, as is usual.
Mar 16, 2022 · Australia. English. Mar 16, 2022. #11. raymondaliasapollyon said: He admitted with the benefit of hindsight that the original launch had not been large enough. You're applying the hindsight to the admission, but that's erroneous. In fact the hindsight applies to the realisation that the launch wasn't large enough.
