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Date:
1800-1900
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From normal sight being judged on the ability to read letters at a distance of 20 feet
twenty-twenty
noun
twenty-twenty
, 20/20
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uncountable
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1
M
twenty-twenty vision
the ability to see things normally, without needing glasses
:
A pilot must have twenty-twenty vision.
2
twenty-twenty hindsight
used to say that it is easy to know what you should have done in a situation after it has happened, but you did not know what to do earlier
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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