Idioms

die behind the wheel

die behind the wheel

To die while driving, as due to an accident. With the reckless way he drives, I won't be surprised to one day hear that he died behind the wheel. My mother never learned to drive because she always had this premonition that she would die behind the wheel. No, you're drunk, and I'm taking your keys. I refuse to let you die behind the wheel or kill someone else!

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die behind the wheel

to die in an automobile accident in a car that one is driving. Poor Fred died behind the wheel in a horrible collision.

See also: behind, die, wheel

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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References in periodicals archive

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