take a back seat

[take a back seat] {v. phr.}, {informal} To accept a poorer or lower position; be second to something or someone else.

* /During the war all manufacturing had to take a back seat to military needs./

* /She does not have to take a back seat to any singer alive./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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