"staircase wit" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1981, Guy Claxton, Wholly Human: Western and Eastern Visions of the Self and Its Perfection, Routledge, page 31",
          "text": "So-called Staircase Wit is another example, where we key ourselves up for an important event — an interview, say, or a date — rehearsing how we are going to present ourselves and what we are going to say. Then afterwards we lie awake thinking of all the witty, intelligent, charming things we should have done and said, and didn't because we were so busy trying to remember and revise the plan. . . .",
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          "text": "One of the most insightful thinkers I know, the computer entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, prompted me to summarize \"my idea\" while standing on one leg. It was not too convenient to stand one one leg after a few glasses of perfumed Riesling, so I failed in my improvisation. The next day I experienced staircase wit.",
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        "(rare, idiomatic) Thinking of an idea or course of action too late to use it effectively, or the tendency to do so."
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