after the fact
after the fact
after something has happened; after something, such as a crime, has taken place. (Originally a legal phrase.)
John is always making excuses after the fact.
热门单词
- accidentally-on-purpose
- advantage
- agreement
- a hand in sth
- a handle on sth
- air out
- a little off
- alive
- (all) in one breath
- all thumbs
- a lucky streak
- amalgamate sth with sth
- a marriage made in heaven
- ambulance chaser
- an absent-minded professor
- an eyeful (of so or sth)
- an itch to do sth
- A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.
- another pair of eyes
- An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
- a number of things or people
