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backseat
[bak-seet]
noun
a seat at the rear.
51Թ 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
ICE agents arrested and detained him while he was driving with his five-year-old son in the backseat of his car.
I look for the grate that would make a cha-choonk sound as the car passed over it on the way into the garage, signaling home when I was a child asleep in the backseat.
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.
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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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