take a backseat (to someone or something)

take a backseat (to someone or something)
take a backseat (to someone or something)
Fig. to become less important than someone or something else. •

My homework had to take a backseat to football during the playoffs.

Jimmy always took a backseat to his older brother, Bill, until Bill went away to college.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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