| 单词 | to take a or the back seat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take a or the back seat P3. to take a or the back seat, figurative to take up the least prominent position, to occupy a subordinate place. Originally U.S. ΚΠ 1868 in Farmer's Slang Dict. at Back Seat [Andrew Johnson's famous saying in 1868 that in the work of Reconstruction traitors should take back seats.] 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlvi. 195 A leader came to care for his influence within his State chiefly as a means of gaining strength in the wider national field... The State, therefore, had, to use the transatlantic phrase, ‘to take the back seat.’ < as lemmas |
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