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backseat

[ bak-seet ]

noun

  1. a seat at the rear.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of backseat1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. take a backseat, to occupy a secondary or inferior position:

    Her writing has taken a backseat because of other demands on her time.

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Example Sentences

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The boy was unbuckled in the backseat at the time, and his mother’s blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit, according to those documents.

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Brady’s work with the Raiders hasn’t taken a backseat, despite his protest that “My ownership interests is just much more of a long-term, kind of behind-the-scenes type role.”

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The lamentations of her preteen daughter, suffering from some wasting disease, bombard her from the backseat of her car, while her useless husband — another faceless voice on a cellphone — insists that she handle everything.

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They headed down the hill, swerving around burning cars and fiery boulders rolling down the hillside, with Florence coughing in the backseat.

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After the war ended in 1949 and the party began ruling China, United Front activities took a backseat to other priorities.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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