BACK-SEAT DRIVER


Meaning of BACK-SEAT DRIVER in English

also backseat driver

( back-seat drivers)

1.

If you refer to a passenger in a car as a back-seat driver , they annoy you because they constantly give you advice.

N-COUNT [ disapproval ]

2.

If you refer to someone, especially a politician, as a back-seat driver , you disapprove of them because they try to influence a situation that does not concern them.

They accused the former prime minister of being a backseat driver.

N-COUNT [ disapproval ]

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