How to pronounce “staircase wit”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (rare, idiomatic) Thinking of an idea or course of action too late to use it effectively, or the tendency to do so.

Practice Nearby Words

false step, slippery slope, pitfall, accident waiting to happen, too little, too late, brainstorm, misplan, contretemps, thinko, rush to judgement, stumbling block, project, stumbling-block, imprudence, wrong end of the stick, disaster waiting to happen, short-sightedness, slips and capture, mistiming, misinvestment, mis-step, blind spot, gumption trap, railroading, misdecision, calculated mistake, regret, blunder, unprudence, timewasting, one step forward, two steps back, folly, misinspiration, stumbling, malinvestment, kink, attentat, broken time, backsliding, camel's nose, hostage to fortune, imprudency, lastminutitis, negativity thinking, backfiring, parapraxis, primrose path, fumblingness, misinclination, misstep, head fake, stumble, foot-dragging, foolhardise, sneaky suspicion, runaway backtracking, catachresis, metachronism, untime, bad joke, upstaging, waste, choke, derailment, unwisdom, trip, mistreading, misjudgment, misadvice, smell, cook, baby and bathwater, fool to oneself, finagle's law, cack-handedness, miscalculation, time-waste, failure, displacement activity, stall, misjudgement, oops, mischoice, wrongheadedness, forgettery, misprision, misadvisedness, straw-grasping, inadvertence, way-sliding, mislaunch, method to one's madness, slip-up, stunting, macaca moment, scheme, cock-up, noodleism, retardation, angle

Similar Sounds

staircases, staircase, starkest, starkist, starset, strawhat, stress out, scare quote, sarcastic, sarcasim