take the wheel
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English
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[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
[edit]take the wheel (third-person singular simple present takes the wheel, present participle taking the wheel, simple past took the wheel, past participle taken the wheel)
- To be in control of the steering wheel of a vehicle or a vessel.
- Can you take the wheel for a minute while I take off my gloves?
- (idiomatic, by extension) To assume control of a situation.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to be in control of the steering wheel
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