While the phrase twenty-twenty may not be new for cricket fans, one must know that it has meanings attached to it. Even though the word has been in existence since the year 1975, not many know what the word means in the vocabulary world.
You might wonder why suddenly the buzz about twenty-twenty; so, here is a quick reminder- we just stepped into the year 2020. Therefore, this word, the one with many meanings, now comes into a broad picture. We, on the other hand, are glad that the new year has given us a new word to add to our vocabulary.
The twenty-twenty grammar
Our word in question is an adjective used by many in the many situations based on its meaning. Another interesting fact about it is that it is also an idiom which now people wish to use with the advent of the new year. Let us take a look at its meanings and usage.
Meaning according to Merriam Webster
Meaning 1: Of the human eye: meeting a standard of normal visual acuity
The word focuses on the clarity or sharpness in one’s vision, i.e., how well one can see from a distance. Medically, it would mean the clarity of one’s sight from a twenty-feet distance. Science considers it the standard range to measure the clarity of one’s vision. For Example: I too had a twenty-twenty vision when I was younger.
Meaning 2: Marked by facilely accurate discernment, judgment, or assessment
According to this meaning, it means that one can judge or understand something with less difficulty or almost effortlessly.
Twenty-Twenty Hindsight- The idiom
The word becomes a phrase and an idiom with the addition of the word ‘hindsight’ behind it. The exact meaning, according to dictionaries, is “the full knowledge and complete understanding that one has about an event only after it has happened.” When you expand the idiom further, you will understand how it explains that one cannot predict the future. We cannot know the right thing to do something until after the event. Therefore the word ‘hindsight’.
When one says “Use your 20-20 hindsight to analyze where we went wrong with our strategy, and present the case again”, they mean to go back to the past and contemplate how things went wrong, and how one can fic it for the next time.
Go ahead, share this 20-20 (also an accepted format to write this word/expression), insight with the people of the year 2020.
If you are interested in knowing about the various types of phobias for a higher vocabulary, check out this article- 10 Common Phobias That You Need For Your Vocabulary
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