take a back seat | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)To adopt a position of noninvolvement.The new chairman is happy totake a back seatwhen it comes to day-to-day operations.; (idiomatic)To be second to someone or something; to be less important or have a lowerpriority.Antonym:take the front seat2004,My LifebyBill ClintonBut as with most kids,politicstook a backseatto daily life.2017January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, inThe Economist‎[1], archived fromthe originalon15 August 2020:The bluntness of King Vajiralongkorn's intervention—and the determination it reveals to resist relatively small checks on royal power—is both a snub to the junta and a worry for democrats, some of whom had dared hope that the new king might be happy totake a back seatin public life.2023April 29,Noam Scheiber, John Koblin, “Will a Chatbot Write the Next ‘Succession’?”, inThe New York Times‎[2], archived fromthe originalon9 June 2023:Mr. August, a screenwriter for movies like “Charlie’s Angels” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” said that while artificial intelligence hadtaken a back seatto compensation in the Writers Guild negotiation, the union was making two key demands on the subject of automation.

Examples:

EN: I don't take a back seat to anyone when it comes to making beef stew.
ES: Con el estofado, no dejo que nadie se entrometa.
EN: Then take a back seat and I'll read it.
ES: - Pues siéntate que se la leo.
EN: Do you think I talked you into this to take a back seat for myself?
ES: ¿Crees que te convencí de esto para quedarme atrás?
EN: "I am perfectly willing to take a back seat for a while. "
ES: Y ahora estoy dispuesto a relajarme y disfrutar.
EN: They want you take a back seat
ES: Quieren que ceses como entrenador.
EN: This great nation cannot take a back seat to competitors like Daimler Mercedes, Napier, Rolls-Royce, Dietrich or Panhard.
ES: Este gran país no debe inclinarse ante competidores como Daimler Mercedes, Napier, Rolls-Royce, Dietrich ni Panhard.
EN: You brought me here so I could go back home and take a back seat on the bus.
ES: Me trajeron aquí para que pueda volver a casa.
EN: I think it's time for Mighty Mouth to take a back seat.
ES: Creo que es hora de que Boca Poderosa vaya al asiento trasero.
EN: But suddenly... I've got this need to take a back seat... and turn the controls over to you,
ES: Pero de repente, tengo la necesidad de ir en el asiento de atrás.
EN: Why should I take a back seat, because I'm a girl?
ES: ¿Y por qué el asiento trasero? ¿Porque soy mujer?
EN: Blautwicz and the gun runners will have to take a back seat
ES: Blautwicz y los traficantes de armas tendrán que esperar un tiempo.
EN: I think llene just wants to feel that she won't take a back seat to your mother.
ES: Creo que Ilene solo quiere sentir que ella no estará por detrás de tu madre.
EN: Don't let hygiene take a back seat.
ES: No permita que la higiene quede en segundo plano.
EN: The ideal of sportsmanship began to take a back seat to excessive celebration.
ES: El ideal deportivo fue dando paso a exageradas muestras de entusiasmo.
EN: It would damage their morale to take a back seat to the Breen.
ES: Si los relegamos a un segundo plano, minaremos su moral.

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