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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
Borghildur-Icelandic
Gennadiyagye-NAH-dee-yah, gee-NAH-dee-yahRussian
Meginhard-Ancient Germanic
MarcyMAHR-seeEnglish
Lara (1)LAHR-ə (English), LAH-rah (German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese)Russian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian
AdorjÁN-Hungarian
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