Usually means: Witty comeback thought of later.
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  1. esprit de l'escalier: Merriam-Webster
  2. esprit de l'escalier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. esprit de l'escalier: Vocabulary.com
  4. esprit de l'escalier: Wiktionary
  5. esprit de l'escalier: Dictionary.com
  6. Esprit de l'escalier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. esprit de lescalier: FreeDictionary.org
  8. esprit de l'escalier: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. esprit de l'escalier: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Esprit de l’escalier: World Wide Words

Definitions from Wiktionary (Esprit de l'escalier)

noun:  Alternative form of l'esprit de l'escalier [The phenomenon when a conversational rejoinder or remark only occurs to someone after the opportunity to make it has passed.]


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