in the driver's seat

in the driver's seat
in the driver's seat
Fig. in control; in charge of things. (As if one were driving and controlling the vehicle.) •

Now that Fred is in the driver's seat, there is a lot less criticism about how things are being done.

Joan can't wait to get into the driver's seat and do what she can to turn things around.

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{adv. phr.} In control; having the power to make decisions. * /Stan is in the driver's seat now that he has been made our supervisor at the factory./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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