事后聪明 — Chinese idiom
事后聪明
shì hòu cōng ming
Traditional: 事後聰明
Meaning
- wise after the event ; with hindsight, one should have predicted it
Character by character
- 事shìaffair, matter, business; to serve; accident, inci
- 后hòuafter; behind, rear; descendants
- 聪cōngsharp (of sight and hearing); intelligent, clever,
- 明mingbright, clear; to explain, to understand, to shed
Idioms sharing a character
- 一事无成 yī shì wú chéng
- 不明事理 bù míng shì lǐ
- 事不过三 shì bù guò sān
- 事不关己 shì bù guān jǐ
- 事倍功半 shì bèi gōng bàn
- 事到临头 shì dào lín tóu
- 事半功倍 shì bàn gōng bèi
- 事危累卵 shì wēi lěi luǎn
- 事在人为 shì zài rén wéi
- 事怕行家 shì pà háng jiā
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