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backseat driver
Fig. an annoying passenger who tells the driver how to drive; someone who tells others how to do things. I don't need any backseat driver on this project. Stop pestering me with all your advice. Nobody likes a backseat driver!
See also: driver

take a backseat (to someone or something)

Fig. to become less important than someone or something else. My homework had to take a backseat to football during the playoffs. Jimmy always took a backseat to his older brother, Bill, until Bill went away to college.
See also: take

a backseat driver 
1. a passenger in a car who continuously tells the driver how they should drive Mike's a real backseat driver and I find it so irritating.
2. (mainly American) someone who expects to control things although it is not their responsibility to do this Tell her you're in charge now. It's time she stopped being a backseat driver.
See also: driver

take a backseat (to somebody)
to let someone else deal with something I was happy to take a backseat and let my brother deal with the family crisis.
Etymology: based on the idea of sitting in the backseat of a car and letting someone else drive
See also: take

take a backseat (to something)

to be considered to be less important than something else For many kids, homework takes a backseat to sports.
See also: take


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All four passengers of the Honda were injured, including a backseat passenger who was airlifted to Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills with severe facial cuts and a neck injury.
The only job she can get is one working in a pizza parlor with Tommy, the high school boy from the backseat.
The car's center backseat is the safest spot in the event of a crash, according to a recent study.
 
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