German loan translation Treppenwitz express the same idea as l'esprit de l'escalier. However, in contemporary German Treppenwitz has an additional meaning:...

supervivo (survive, literally "overlive", which is a synonym of survive) Treppenwitz calques French l'esprit de l'escalier (staircase wit) herunterladen calques...

him still working as a patent employee. This he called a "stair joke [Treppenwitz] of history". In 1909 he became co-worker of Philipp Lenard at the University...