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wheelhouse
[weel-hous, hweel-]
noun
plural
wheelhousesan 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
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wheelhouse1
Idioms and Phrases
in the same wheelhouse, very similar and usually in the same category.
The two folk singers are in the same wheelhouse.
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.
Example Sentences
That is my wheelhouse, and Paul fit right in, except he was an icon.
The theme - Superfine: Tailoring Black Style - was "completely in my wheelhouse", he says, as it looked at the way that style formed black identities.
But I always thought, I wanna write plays, or screenplays, because that felt more in my wheelhouse.
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.
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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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