#staircase wit

[yesterdaysprint]

Courier-News, Plainfield, New Jersey, November 10, 1936

[clunge]

Neck Deep - Staircase Wit

[pop-punk-poly]

Staircase Wit // Neck Deep

[mscalifornication]

Don't judge me on my bad habits I could pick out every flaw of yours And unearth all your imperfections

Staircase Wit // Neck Deep

(this is for you @rain--injuly)

[mysnarkyslytherinsecret]

In "Severus Snape and the Marauders," James taunts Snape by bragging, "Lily loves to snog here." In that moment I always imagine Snape shrugging airily and replying in a lazy drawl, "That's funny, she always takes me somewhere else."

This does, in fact, go through Severus’ mind after the fight, but he’s always been the master of staircase wit, being far too awkward and antisocial to practice it much. It is only after he becomes a teacher and endures a trial by fire (his first year) that he finally develops the ability to quip almost faster than the speed of light.

[randumblygeneratedusername]

The French have a name for when you think of the thing you should have said: L'esprit d'escaliar--

roughly "staircase wit"-- named for the moment on the stairs as you leave

the building when you think of the thing you should have said

[missedstations]

"Staircase wit” - Rhiannon McGavin

[ronk]

L’espirit de l’escalier

My French is very limited, but my wife is fluent. So, when I saw the expression L’espirit de l’escalier, in my reading,  I asked her what it meant.  She said it is a French term for when you can’t come up with a response to a comment, but then you think of the perfect reply when it’s too late to respond.

It seems to me that other languages have more of these expressions for complicated…

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