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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
OctÁVio-Portuguese
Martinamahr-TEE-nah (Italian, Spanish, Dutch), mahr-TEEN-ə (English)German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, English, Swedish, Dutch, Ancien
'Esaw-Biblical Hebrew
Chuks-Western African, Igbo
Alesander-Basque
Kuzman-Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian
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