Definition of backseat driver in US English:
backseat driver
nounˌbaksēt ˈdrīvərˌbaksēt ˈdrīvər
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 advise without responsibility.
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- 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.
- He is deluged with advice from back-seat drivers.
- 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.