英语词汇“grandstand quarterback”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

grandstand quarterback n. U.S. a spectator who believes he could run the (football) team better than the quarterback, and loudly gives advice from the grandstand; (in extended use) a person who gives an unsolicited judgment on an event or incident without being personally involved.

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1927 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 18 Oct. 15/1 Year after year, the grandstand quarterbacks and schedule makers moan because Notre Dame, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn and such teams can not be induced to come here.

1976 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 10 Oct. k4/4 Somebody who sits in Washington D.C., 18 months after the Mayaguez incident, can be a very good grandstand quarterback.

2004 M. Levy Marv Levy xxxi. 362 That grandstand quarterback had better numbers..than Jim had. While Jim had completed only five touchdown passes, that guy offering advice put away nine beers by the time the final gun sounded.

b. In extended (ironic) use: a supporter or critic of football, one who claims special knowledge of and insight into a game or team; usually in compounds, as downtown quarterback, grandstand quarterback, etc. Hence: any person who does not participate in something but analyses, advises, or criticizes from a distance or with hindsight; one who is wise after the event. See also armchair quarterback n. at armchair n. and adj. Compounds; Monday-morning quarterback n. at Monday-morning adj. Compounds.

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1927 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 16 Oct. 15/1 Year after year, the grandstand quarterbacks and schedule makers moan because Notre Dame, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn and such teams can not be induced to come here.

1930 Los Angeles Times 26 Apr. 9/4 ‘Huh!’ snorted one of the Sunday-morning quarterbacks. ‘Wonder what the great managerial idea was to leave Baccht in until he was hammered for six runs in the sixth inning.’

1932 N.Y. Times 26 Oct. 20/2 A New York football correspondent, taking a taxi from a South Bend hotel to the Notre Dame campus..sought a little inside information from the ‘downtown quarterback’ at the wheel.

1947 Collier's 15 Nov. 17 (heading) Penn's downtown quarterbacks were a gloomy lot when George Munger became grid coach.

1949 Collier's 19 Nov. 18/3 The quarterbacks in the stands consider Pop Warner's system..obsolete.

1976 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 10 Oct. k4/4 Somebody who sits in Washington D.C., 18 months after the Mayaguez incident, can be a very good grandstand quarterback.

1992 Utne Reader Mar.–Apr. 44/2 Budweiser's bouncing..babes entertain legions of living room quarterbacks.

2005 Marketing 4 July 3 What I want to know is where were all those cocksure grandstand quarterbacks?

单词	grandstand quarterback
释义	> as lemmas grandstand quarterback grandstand quarterback n. U.S. a spectator who believes he could run the (football) team better than the quarterback, and loudly gives advice from the grandstand; (in extended use) a person who gives an unsolicited judgment on an event or incident without being personally involved. ΚΠ 1927 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 18 Oct. 15/1 Year after year, the grandstand quarterbacks and schedule makers moan because Notre Dame, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn and such teams can not be induced to come here. 1976 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 10 Oct. k4/4 Somebody who sits in Washington D.C., 18 months after the Mayaguez incident, can be a very good grandstand quarterback. 2004 M. Levy Marv Levy xxxi. 362 That grandstand quarterback had better numbers..than Jim had. While Jim had completed only five touchdown passes, that guy offering advice put away nine beers by the time the final gun sounded. extracted from grandstandn. grandstand quarterback b. In extended (ironic) use: a supporter or critic of football, one who claims special knowledge of and insight into a game or team; usually in compounds, as downtown quarterback, grandstand quarterback, etc. Hence: any person who does not participate in something but analyses, advises, or criticizes from a distance or with hindsight; one who is wise after the event. See also armchair quarterback n. at armchair n. and adj. Compounds; Monday-morning quarterback n. at Monday-morning adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > supporter quarterback1927 subway alumnus1933 1927 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 16 Oct. 15/1 Year after year, the grandstand quarterbacks and schedule makers moan because Notre Dame, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn and such teams can not be induced to come here. 1930 Los Angeles Times 26 Apr. 9/4 ‘Huh!’ snorted one of the Sunday-morning quarterbacks. ‘Wonder what the great managerial idea was to leave Baccht in until he was hammered for six runs in the sixth inning.’ 1932 N.Y. Times 26 Oct. 20/2 A New York football correspondent, taking a taxi from a South Bend hotel to the Notre Dame campus..sought a little inside information from the ‘downtown quarterback’ at the wheel. 1947 Collier's 15 Nov. 17 (heading) Penn's downtown quarterbacks were a gloomy lot when George Munger became grid coach. 1949 Collier's 19 Nov. 18/3 The quarterbacks in the stands consider Pop Warner's system..obsolete. 1976 Sunday Sun (Baltimore) 10 Oct. k4/4 Somebody who sits in Washington D.C., 18 months after the Mayaguez incident, can be a very good grandstand quarterback. 1992 Utne Reader Mar.–Apr. 44/2 Budweiser's bouncing..babes entertain legions of living room quarterbacks. 2005 Marketing 4 July 3 What I want to know is where were all those cocksure grandstand quarterbacks? extracted from quarterbackn. < as lemmas
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