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backseat
[ bak-seet ]
noun
- a seat at the rear.
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of backseat1
Idioms and Phrases
- take a backseat, to occupy a secondary or inferior position:
Her writing has taken a backseat because of other demands on her time.
Example Sentences
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.
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.”
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.
They headed down the hill, swerving around burning cars and fiery boulders rolling down the hillside, with Florence coughing in the backseat.
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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