Showing posts with label backseat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label backseat. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Lesson 304--People You Shouldn't Drive With

 
Here is a short list of people you don't want to drive with.
A Backseat driver:  someone who criticizes your driving or tells you how to drive.  They don't have to be sitting in the backseat.  They might be in the passenger seat.  This is considered a negative word.
A Nervous Nelly:  someone who is nervous when they are a passenger in the car.  They seem tense and stamp on the floor as if to press a brake pedal.
A bad navigator:  someone who can't read a map and/or can't give instructions on how to get someplace.
A Pit-stop Paul:  someone who can't drive for too long without needing to go to the washroom.
A Stereo-searcher:  someone who is constantly fiddling with the radio.  They might be trying to find the perfect song, or they might be constantly adjusting the volume, bass or treble.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Lesson 118


 
 

Idiom:  Take a backseat


 

Meaning:  To become less important, to lose status, to lose priority.

 

examples


Once he got a new job, his hobbies took a backseat.

Jim's problems took a backseat after he had a child.

Once the economy improved, problems that had taken a backseat became more important.

Greg was upset that his concerns always took a backseat to his sister's.