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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.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Malin | | MAH-lin (Swedish, Norwegian), MAH-leen (Finnish) | Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish |
Vilen | | vee-LYEN | Russian |
Leutwin | | - | Ancient Germanic |
'Aamir | | - | Arabic |
Lynne | | [lin] | |
Evgeniya | | yev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian), eev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian) | Bulgarian, Russian |