📚 Take a back seat, phrase. ❓ Definition: Take or be given a less important position or role. ❗️ Examples: 1. In future he would take a back seat in politics. 2. Yet the majority of the book emphasizes dinosaur osteology, systematics, and the fossil record; paleobiology takes a back seat to this important foundation. 3. But she piled on the pounds after the birth of her son, George, nine months ago and singing took a back seat as her confidence dwindled. 4. The role of the citizen is taking a back seat to decisions being made about our communities and the environment. 5. Was love more important than wealth or did romance take a back seat to social climbing? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic