You know the feeling. You get into an argument with someone, the two of you are going at each other back and forth, and they get you so riled up that you suddenly can't think of a good comeback until long after the fight is over.
There's actually a French term for this called l'esprit de l'escalier. It describes the feeling you get when you come up with the perfect reply after the fact.
We've all been there. It's devastating.
So let's take a moment and pay our respects to and celebrate the really good comebacks—the ultimate expressions of wit and cleverness. Taken from the appropriately titled subreddit r/MurderedByWords, here are some of the best ways people have ended their disagreements.
#1 Just Try Not Being Straight For Awhile
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#2 "Educate Your Self"
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#3 Waddaya Say, Then?
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#4 Gas Pump (Doesn't) Go Brrrrr
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#5 Exercise By Jumping Into Conclusion
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#6 A Very Important Point
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#7 Something About Bootstraps
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#8 Bye Bye Trash!!
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#9 Let's Blame Children's Knees For Making Men Uncomfortable
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#10 America, F**k Yeah!
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#11 In The Interests Of Public Safety
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#12 Anti Vaxxer Pretends To Be Educated
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#13 So Cold It Burns
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#14 Nice Try
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#15 Complete Slam Dunk From This Dude
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#16 Can't Say Much, Can We?
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#17 There's No Vaccination For That
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#18 New Zealand’s Prime Minister Personally Replies To A Hater
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#19 Murdered By Logic, As Well
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#20 I'd Expect No Less At Dollar General
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#21 The Best Putdowns Come From The Truth
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#22 This Comeback Belongs In The Hall Of Fame
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#23 Not Sure You Are Doing It Right
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#24 I'll Bet They Do, At Least The Senior Ncos
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#25 Girls Have Ankles Too
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#26 Twitter Used Guillotine! It’s A One Hit Ko!
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#27 Jeepers Creepers
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#28 Please Stop Calling People You Disagree With That
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#29 America Was Not Started By Protestors!
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#30 Peon's Don't Deserve Dignity
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#31 Honestly, You're Not Important Enough To Be Microchipped
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#32 That'll Show Them!
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#33 $10 To Clean The Bathroom?!
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#34 "I Don’t Understand Marches"
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#35 Who Knows What They Put In "Food" Anyway?
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#36 Anti-Vax Logic
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#37 Wine Is Thicker Than Blood
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#38 Tomi Lahren
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#39 Anti-Masker vs. A Hedge
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#40 Pick Me, Pick Me!
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#41 That’s A Stupid Reason To Ban Transgender People
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#42 It's That Simple
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#43 "In His Samarra Hometown, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Was Known As The Local Cleric. To The FBI, He's The Militant Leader Who Was An Iraqi Terrorist And Headed Isis."
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#44 God Is A White Man
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#45 Amazing Observation
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#46 They Have To, It's The Law
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#47 When Did They Start Calling Us Doomers?
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#48 Brandy Is Not Having It
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#49 My Dad Hasn’t Paid Child Support In Years And Posted This. I Had To Respond
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#50 He’s Definitely Not Making Into Smash Now
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#51 And This Is The Truth
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#52 Poor Washed-Up Has-Been Whining About Back In The Day
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#53 [insert Mildly Interesting Title]
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#54 Tinder Convo. Murdered By Two Letters. New Record? Likely Can't Ever Be Beaten
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#55 Deutscher Patriotismus vs. American Patriotism
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#56 I Use Capital Letters To Sound Smarter
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#57 Your Bigotry Is Showing...
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#58 Did Not Know That About The First Computer Virus
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#59 Why Even Publish This Story?
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#60 Babies Are Not A Plaything
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#61 Seriously, Read Or Be Read.
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#62 Why Are People Still On The Side Of The Billionaires?
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#63 I Can't Make Titles
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#64 Why Is Tucker Carlson?
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#65 That Went Over Like A Lead Balloon
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#66 Xena Slays Hercules! (Lucy Lawless vs. Kevin Sorbo)
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#67 Probably Not Even The Full 30 Minutes
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#68 No Second Chances For Her!
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#69 Space Ned Flanders Responds To A Comment On A Post About A Plaque On The Moon.
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#70 That’s A Lotta Damage
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#71 Much Ado About Something
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#72 I Used My Argument To Destroy My Argument
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#73 The Difference Between Appropriation And Appreciation
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#74 Nike Tried To Disown The Shoes Funnily Enough
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#75 “We Follow Biblical Rules”
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#76 Inconvenient At Worst
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