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Monday morning quarterback
noun
- a person who criticizes the actions or decisions of others after the fact, using hindsight to assess situations and specify alternative solutions.
Monday morning quarterback
noun
- informal.a person who criticizes or suggests alternative courses of action from a position of hindsight after the event in question
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- Mon顎僤ay morn顎僫ng quar顎僼erbacking noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of Monday morning quarterback1
Idioms and Phrases
A person who criticizes or passes judgment from a position of hindsight, as in Ethel was a Monday-morning quarterback about all the personnel changes in her department鈥攕he always claimed to have known what was going to happen . This expression, first recorded in 1932, alludes to fans who verbally 鈥渞eplay鈥 Sunday's football game the next day, the quarterback being the team member who calls the plays.Example Sentences
鈥淥f course, it鈥檚 so easy to be the Monday morning quarterback,鈥 he says with a smile.
Do you ever play Monday morning quarterback with records that don鈥檛 work?
Atkins said she wasn鈥檛 sure, saying: 鈥淚t鈥檚 easy to Monday morning quarterback now. ... We know more today than we did then.鈥
鈥淚magine a 14-year-old kid trying to process in real time what鈥檚 going on, and we鈥檙e here playing Monday morning quarterback,鈥 Gordon said.
Bill Plaschke has gone from being a Monday morning quarterback to a Thursday morning quarterback.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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