jobs backwards
jobs backwards is the third-person singular simple present indicative of job backwards.
Meaning of job backwards
Verb
job backwards (third-person singular simple present jobs backwards, present participle jobbing backwards, simple past and past participle jobbed backwards)
- To reassess one's original decisions (e.g. investments) with hindsight, determining how they might have been better chosen.
- They maintain that Sir William has "jobbed backwards"; that people who invested in the mines were indulging in a speculation, and that because the speculation has failed the whole matter has been considered by Sir William as if it concerned […]1941, The Economist, volume 140, page 46
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- Jobs backwards is the third-person singular simple present indicative of job backwards.
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