after-blow

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If the result turns out satisfactorily, the leader will get all the credit, but if he is defeated, he gets all the after-blow.

Imperial Strategy 1920
If the precisians of Port Nassau had made religion her tragedy, this man had come in, by an after-blow, to turn it into a blasphemous farce.

Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903