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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 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms
- Monīday mornīing quarīterbacking noun
51³Ō¹Ļ 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 departmentāshe always claimed to have known what was going to happen . This expression, first recorded in 1932, alludes to fans who verbally āreplayā Sunday's football game the next day, the quarterback being the team member who calls the plays.Example Sentences
āOf course, itās so easy to be the Monday morning quarterback,ā he says with a smile.
Do you ever play Monday morning quarterback with records that donāt work?
Atkins said she wasnāt sure, saying: āItās easy to Monday morning quarterback now. ... We know more today than we did then.ā
āImagine a 14-year-old kid trying to process in real time whatās going on, and weāre here playing Monday morning quarterback,ā 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 Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Ā© Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary copyright Ā© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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