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What's the word for....
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:24 am
by christie1111
Coming up with the perfect response about 2 minutes after you need it?
I thought it was Yiddish but on second thought may be freench.
I thought it had to do with going back up steps.
The mind is a seive sometimes.
Re: What's the word for....
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:26 am
by Bob Juch
christie1111 wrote:Coming up with the perfect response about 2 minutes after you need it?
I thought it was Yiddish but on second thought may be freench.
I thought it had to do with going back up steps.
The mind is a seive sometimes.
Stairway wit - L’esprit de l’escalier
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:30 am
by tlynn78
Stairway wit - L’esprit de l’escalier
cool. I thought it was terry-itis
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:28 am
by Sir_Galahad
Don't know but I do it all the time. I did it quite often during The Audition period.
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:39 am
by MarleysGh0st
Sir_Galahad wrote:Don't know but I do it all the time. I did it quite often during The Audition period.
I still do, although it may take all night to think of what I should have said.
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:47 pm
by peacock2121
I call it 'slow on the uptake'.
or something like that.
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:36 pm
by ne1410s
I've heard it called "driveway response". You think of the right comeback as you are leaving the party...