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wheelhouse

[weel-hous, hweel-]

noun

plural

wheelhouses 
  1. pilothouse.

  2. 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

  1. another term for pilot house

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of wheelhouse1

First recorded in 1805–15; wheel + house
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. in the same wheelhouse, very similar and usually in the same category.

    The two folk singers are in the same wheelhouse.

  2. in one’s wheelhouse,

    1. Baseball. (of a pitch) within the zone that is most advantageous for a batter to hit a home run.

    2. within one’s area of expertise or interest.

      There are some subjects that are in your wheelhouse and some that are not.

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Example Sentences

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That is my wheelhouse, and Paul fit right in, except he was an icon.

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The theme - Superfine: Tailoring Black Style - was "completely in my wheelhouse", he says, as it looked at the way that style formed black identities.

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But I always thought, I wanna write plays, or screenplays, because that felt more in my wheelhouse.

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Then again, it would also be entirely in Trump’s wheelhouse to do absolutely nothing about this problem and see how it plays out.

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This may eventually end up in the wheelhouse of Rob Bonta, the California attorney general.

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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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