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wheelhouse
[ weel-hous, hweel- ]
noun
- an area of expertise: Critical thinking is the wheelhouse of the liberal arts.
This product plays directly into marketing’s wheelhouse.
Critical thinking is the wheelhouse of the liberal arts.
wheelhouse
/ ˈɾːˌʊ /
noun
- another term for pilot house
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of wheelhouse1
Idioms and Phrases
- in one’s wheelhouse,
- Baseball. (of a pitch) within the zone that is most advantageous for a batter to hit a home run.
- within one’s area of expertise or interest:
There are some subjects that are in your wheelhouse and some that are not.
- in the same wheelhouse, very similar and usually in the same category:
The two folk singers are in the same wheelhouse.
Example Sentences
Then again, it would also be entirely in Trump’s wheelhouse to do absolutely nothing about this problem and see how it plays out.
This may eventually end up in the wheelhouse of Rob Bonta, the California attorney general.
On overnight trips, he gives Titus and Bjorklund the cabin below deck, while he sleeps on the floor of the wheelhouse with his three rescue dogs.
When the Dodgers learned of the assignment, Friedman said, “we felt like it was right in our wheelhouse.”
Irreverence is also something where it’s not in my wheelhouse, some comics are really good at it, and that is their thing.
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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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