Monday-morning quarterback
(idiomatic, transitive) To criticize with hindsight.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To criticize with hindsight.
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(US, idiomatic) Someone who criticizes with hindsight.
Yet some Monday-morning quarterbacks also noted that, just as 1960 was the first TV election and 2016 was the first social-media election, the 2024 Presidential campaign was the first to be conducted largely on live streams and long-form…
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