take a back seat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To adopt a position of noninvolvement.
To be second to someone or something; to be less important or have a lower priority.

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From take a seat and back seat.

take the front seat

in the back seat in the driver's seat on the back burner second fiddle take a number

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