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单词 to take a back seat
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to take a back seat
A seat at the back of a vehicle. Also, esp. a seat at or towards the back of a hall, etc., an inferior seat; hence colloquial, a position of inferiority or comparative obscurity (originally U.S. in to take a back seat (figurative), to occupy a subordinate place; see seat n. Phrases 3).
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > other > position of
back seata1832
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [noun] > at back
back seata1832
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > parts and equipment of vehicles generally > [noun] > seat > of specific type or position
driver's seata1726
side seat1742
driving seat1788
back seata1832
aisle seat1838
car seat1850
reclining seat1857
window seat1862
passenger seat1867
seat-board1873
garden seat1884
bucket-seat1908
shotgun1940
Sleeperette1950
sleeper seat1960
a1832 R. C. Sands Writings (1834) II. 148 He had..ample room wherein to adjust himself and his properties, on the back-seat [of the coach].
1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xx. 157 The Lady Maria had the back seat to herself.
1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xiii. 227 The double of Mrs. Gen. Cadwallader took the back seat to herself.
1873 T. B. Aldrich Marjorie Daw 36 The colonel drove, with my father in front, Miss Daw and I on the back seat.
1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. 234 Le gros papa took up all the front seat of the carriage... In the middle seats were the young Germans..and in the back seat..on which two people could have been uncomfortably seated, sat the middle-aged Englishman, Walter, and I.
1898 H. S. Canfield Maid of Frontier 176 We took a back seat [in the meeting], me and my girl did.
1928 ‘I. Hay’ Poor Gentleman iv. 71 I'll put you in the back seat together going home.
1859 Harper's Mag. June 54/2 This menagerie of..red skins, whom a score of indefatigable Coopers and Longfellows could never raise to merit a back seat in the heaven of romance.1866 Congress. Globe May 2402/2 When [he]..was acting with the Union party, he proclaimed to the world ‘that traitors should take a back seat’.1881 J. W. Jones in Southern Hist. Soc. Papers IX. 133 I tell you, those able-bodied men who are sleeping in feather beds tonight,..must be content to take back seats when we get home.1885 Society 7 Feb. 9 This great batting achievement must, however, take a back seat.1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 92 ‘Bouncing Bob’ [was] relegated to a ‘back seat’ as wit and occasional bully of the camp.1899 H. James Awkward Age 180 ‘Don't you think that's rather a back seat, as they say, for one's best?’ ‘A back seat?’—she wondered with a purity! ‘If you don't understand,’ said her companion, ‘it serves me right, as your aunt didn't leave me with you to teach you the slang of the day.’1902 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) I. 395 To enliven the milieu, on he brought a circus procession... And Oxford had to take a back seat.1904 Pittsburg Gaz. 8 Aug. 4 This fad for the Pomeranian..has given the broken-nosed pugs a back seat.1959 Times 22 Nov. 5/6 Those who think that the trade union movement should take a back seat in the Labour movement should think again.
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