[Ads-l] "It's always easy to Monday-morning-quarterback a situation."

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 17 16:58:37 UTC 2018


Isn't the verb in HDAS II?

Too lazy/busy to look.

JL

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> It’s also easy, as Google hits (both literal and metaphorical) confirm, to
> back-seat drive (a car, a relationship, an organization,…)
>
> LH
>
> > On Jan 17, 2018, at 2:03 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
> >
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> > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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