| 单词 | monday-morning quarterback |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMonday-morning quarterback Monday-morning quarterback n. chiefly North American (originally U.S.) a person (esp. a journalist) who engages in ‘post-mortem’ analysis of a game; a person who assumes wisdom after the event; cf. quarterback n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > broadcasting > [noun] > broadcaster > engaging in retrospective analysis Monday-morning quarterback1930 1930 Macon (Georgia) Tel. 11 Jan. 8/4 (heading) Analytical Prognostications on the Big Games of Saturday by Nitt Witt, Famous Monday Morning Quarterback and Unanimous Choice For All-American Pullman Team of 1929. 1932 B. Wood What Price Football vi. 100 A kind of sportswriter known to football players and coaches as a ‘Monday morning quarterback’... Not content with reporting the game..the writer must analyze it. 1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 21 June (Weekend Suppl.) 3/5 Maybe if they had gotten their due, we wouldn't have all this terrorism and the horrible mess in Lebanon. But sitting here in this chair, looking back across the years, I guess it's easy to be a Monday-morning quarterback. < as lemmas |
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