back seat

It doesn’t seem to cross his mind while firing off any of these emails—from the private jet, from one of his many palatial residences, from the back seat of an expensive car—that they might one day come back to bite him, despite the fact that the emails come footed with the now highly ironic-feeling disclaimer that “the information contained in this communication is confidential.”

And the rule of law has to take a back seat to the logic of the battlefield, where winning is all that matters and victory justifies everything.

“We lost them by Central and 26th!” shouted 32-year-old Mariana Ochoa from the back seat as she held her son on her lap.

Barrera and I jumped in the back seat of another car as Enriquez took the wheel.

Uber is responsible for making sure the robot cars are maintained—somebody has to clean out the back seat and pick up the forgotten backpacks.