backseat driver

Example Sentences

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There is always a risk for any prime minister that your predecessor ends up as a backseat driver.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2023

So, I’m going to be sitting in the back being the backseat driver.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022

It’s like he’s sitting inside three racing cars at once – behind the wheel of two of them, a backseat driver in the third.

From Time • Sep. 1, 2016

These fears came to him in sleep, but during his waking hours, he sought to master them by rejecting the backseat driver analogy in favor of a different mental model: skiing.

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2015

Perhaps Maddie was more of a backseat driver than a stooge.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein