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What's the word for....

#1 Post by christie1111 » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:24 am

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.
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#2 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:26 am

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.
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#3 Post by tlynn78 » Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:30 am

Stairway wit - L’esprit de l’escalier
cool. I thought it was terry-itis


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#4 Post by Sir_Galahad » Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:28 am

Don't know but I do it all the time. I did it quite often during The Audition period. ;)
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#5 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Apr 11, 2008 10:39 am

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. :|
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#6 Post by peacock2121 » Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:47 pm

I call it 'slow on the uptake'.

or something like that.
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#7 Post by ne1410s » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:36 pm

I've heard it called "driveway response". You think of the right comeback as you are leaving the party...
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