Monday-morning quarterback



Monday-morning quarterback

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-she always claimed to have known what was going to happen . This expression, first recorded in 1932, alludes to fans who verbally "replay" Sunday's football game the next day, the quarterback being the team member who calls the plays.
See also: quarterback

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
HlÍF-Ancient Scandinavian, Icelandic
Kathie['kæθi]
BenteBEN-te (Danish, Norwegian), BEN-tə (Dutch)Danish, Norwegian, Dutch
NoraNAWR-ə (English), NO-rah (German)Irish, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch, Italian
Fridumar-Ancient Germanic
Praveen-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam