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take a back seat

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take a back seat
1. if an activity takes a back seat, you spend less time doing that than other things. He's been putting all his energies into house-hunting recently so his studies have had to take a back seat. In my early twenties, politics very much took a back seat to sport and socializing. (sometimes + to)
2. to let other people take a more active and responsible part in an organization or a situation. I was content to take a back seat and let the rest of my family deal with the crisis.
See also: back, seat, take
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"Look here," he exclaimed, "I don't think you ought to force me to give myself away like this, but, after all, you are an Englishman, with a stake in your country, and I presume you don't want her to take a back seat for the next few generations.
The Vanished Messenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
and that nigger was corked up and had to take a back seat.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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