Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases IN HINDSIGHT and HINDSIGHT IS 20/20 In this English lesson I wanted to help you learn the English phrase “with hindsight”, or sometimes we say “in hindsight”. And this simply means when looking back in time. So I could say this, “With hindsight we know that dumping garbage into the ocean is a bad idea.” If we look back 50 or 100 years, we know that some of the things we did were bad. So with hindsight, when we look back in time

READ ALONG TO PRACTICE YOUR ENGLISH: So in English we have this saying that hindsight is 20/20. Now, hindsight is not a common English word, but this phrase is common. Hindsight means looking at things that have happened in the past. The numbers 20/20 come from when we talk about eyesight. If you have 20/20 vision, it means that your eyesight is perfect. It means that you don't need glasses. So when we say that hindsight is 20/20, what it means is that, when you look at things you did in the pas