Monday morning quarterback
Speech parts
1. Monday morning quarterback - Noun
2. Monday morning quarterback - Verb
Meaning
Monday morning quarterback (plural Monday morning quarterbacks)
Alternative form of Monday-morning quarterback
Monday-morning quarterback (plural Monday-morning quarterbacks)
(US, idiomatic) Someone who criticizes with hindsight.
Monday-morning quarterback (third-person singular simple present Monday-morning quarterbacks, present participle Monday-morning quarterbacking, simple past and past participle Monday-morning quarterbacked)
To criticize with hindsight.
Alternative names
Monday-morning quarterback
Examples
I’m not trying to play Monday morning quarterback here, but this is urgent.
Realizing Trump’s action might actually work, and realizing he doesn’t want to be the bad Monday morning quarterback, Kim slipped further away from the Pelosi-Schumer narrative.