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Jobb Posted 21 years ago
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Afterthought

Afterthought = ?

And all knew that without the United States peace and freedom would not have survived.
Today President Bush appears to believe in a kind of unilateral civilization. The
United Nations is an afterthought; treaties are not considered binding.
  

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an afterthought = something that wasn't important enough to think about originally; something of secondary importance or of little consequence; something not worth thinking about. N. ")

— CalifJim

  • an afterthought = something that wasn't important enough to think about originally; something of secondary importance or of little consequence; something not worth thinking about.
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an afterthought = something that wasn't important enough to think about originally; something of secondary importance or of little consequence; something not worth thinking about.

(- used ironically here to mean "In the president's (wrong) opinion, the U.N. is an afterthought.")
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