BACK-SEAT DRIVER


Meaning of BACK-SEAT DRIVER in English

also backseat driver

(~s)

1.

If you refer to a passenger in a car as a ~, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice.

N-COUNT disapproval

2.

If you refer to someone, especially a politician, as a ~, 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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