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Definition of back-seat driver in English: back-seat drivernoun informal 1A passenger in a car who gives the driver unwanted advice. Example sentencesExamples - I would need a sound proof partition for my passengers, though - I can't stand back seat drivers.
- I can't stand back-seat drivers… even worse, passenger-seat drivers.
- 1.1 A person who is eager to give advice about something for which they are not responsible.
Example sentencesExamples - After all, remember how he once described critics as back-seat drivers facing the wrong way, and certainly critics are usually pretty good on the past, moderately good on the present, and helpless and hopeless for the future.
- He was also plagued by advisers, officials and politicians, in Delhi who were not just back-seat drivers but wanted to take over the steering wheel themselves.
- ‘I'll be in the driving seat because it's the only seat to be in,’ he answered a conference delegate who pointedly asked what the candidates thought of back-seat drivers.
- He is deluged with advice from back-seat drivers.
- She failed to appreciate that the term ‘back-seat driver’, in most people's eyes, was pejorative: she thought it merely indicated helpfulness, whereas others saw it as meddling and controlling.
Derivatives noun informal But back-seat drivers and back-seat driving are variations of the same expression. Example sentencesExamples - Whatever assessment one makes of the term of a leader who has enjoyed a long and mostly undisturbed innings, it is less easy to forgive back-seat driving designed to sabotage his or her successor.
- How many of us love back-seat driving, even when we love the people who're doing it more than life itself?
- If others are riding with you, encourage back-seat driving.
- I don't think this particular bit of back-seat driving is correct.
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