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A supercilious [[Latin maxims|Latinism]] that means “only with hindsight” or  “after the fact”. Still, as [[Latinism]]s go it is benign and in fact cheers both speaker and the listener up because, even if one can't speak {{tag|Latin}}, it's still bleeding obvious what it means, so everyone gets to feel the warm glow of multi-lingual literacy, however unwarranted that feeling may ultimately be.
{{a|latin|}}A supercilious [[Latin maxims|Latinism]] that means “only with hindsight” or  “after the fact”. Still, as [[Latinism]]s go it is benign and in fact cheers both speaker and the listener up because, even if one can't speak {{tag|Latin}}, it's still bleeding obvious what it means, so everyone gets to feel the warm glow of multi-lingual literacy, however unwarranted that feeling may ultimately be.
 
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