backseat driver
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT If you refer to a passenger in a car as a backseat driver, they annoy you because they constantly give you advice about how to drive. 坐在汽車后座對駕駛員指手畫腳的人[表不滿]
2. N-COUNT If you refer to someone, especially a politician, as a backseat driver, you disapprove of them because they try to influence a situation that does not concern them. 干涉他人事務(wù)的人[表不滿]
They accused the former president of being a backseat driver. 他們譴責(zé)前總統(tǒng)是個(gè)專門干涉他人事務(wù)的人。
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backseat driver (also back-seat driver) (backseat drivers)
劍橋詞典
- a passenger in a car who keeps giving the driver advice that he or she has not asked for
亂指點(diǎn)司機(jī)的乘客;多管閑事的人
figurative It is expected that the former CEO will be a backseat driver (= have a controlling influence on what happens ) on the company's board . 人們料定前任首席執(zhí)行官會對董事會指手畫腳。 返回 backseat driver