I am an english speaking native, and I have noticed that I use a lot of old expressions that don't make any sense to my ESL friends. Write down any english expressions you know and what they mean. Or, if you've heard an english expression that you don't understand, write it here! "Hind site is twenty-twenty" – Hind is short for behind, or, in this case, the past. And perfect vision is 20/20. So, this means, when you are looking back on the past, you can clearly see what you should have done. People use it when someone is regretting doing something. You tell them this to comfort them, because we can all see what we should have done after we have made a decision, but it is not so easy at the time when the decision needs to be made! "You catch more flies" – This is short for another old expression, which is "You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar". This means that you will have more success with people by being nice to them.
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