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'Treppenwitz' is an expression for the case when a joke comes to your mind too late, when you're already descending the staircase.
bill, you don't know how long I looked for a word/phrase for this concept, until discovering about a year ago the F. phrase l'esprit d'escalier; the wit of the staircase.
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