a seat at the back of a vehicle
IDIOMS
a back-seat driver
1 a passenger in a vehicle who keeps giving advice to the driver about how he or she should drive
2 a person who wants to be in control of sth that is not really their responsibility
take a back seat to allow sb else to play a more active and important role in a particular situation than you do:
Many managers take a back seat and leave recruitment to specialists.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is back seat a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, back seat is tagged as noun.
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