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back-seat driver

noun

  1. a passenger in a car who offers unwanted advice to the driver
  2. a person who offers advice on or tries to direct matters that are not his or her concern
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Your driving-directions app that bosses you around like a back-seat driver is squeezing the life out of Loyd Sigmon’s name and his namesake baby: the SigAlert.

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“It’s literally a back-seat driver.”

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Mr. Massie said he has little faith in an automated back-seat driver that has the power to shut down a car.

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But Williams was not made to be a back-seat driver and, desperate for independence, he severed ties with the Canadian businessman.

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Even as president, Mr. Trump has often appeared most comfortable in the role of back-seat driver, jeering his own government like a common bystander, insisting that someone really ought to do something about all this.

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