Staircase wit.(the witty riposte one thinks of only when one has left the drawing-room and is already on the way downstairs) L'esprit de l'escalier.
Denis Diderot (1713–84), from Paradoxe sur le Comédien (written 1773&endash;78, published 1830)
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