be in the driving seat

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be the person in control of a situation

   You are the one that's in the driving seat.

   Taking your destiny by the throat. You're in the driver's seat.

In the movies · 3

• You are the one that's in the driving seat.Creed2015
• Taking your destiny by the throat. You're in the driver's seat.Slap Shot1977
• Why a team worth $800 million with one of the most complex offenses ever built, by me, should put you in the driver's seat.American Underdog2021
• I'm in the driving seat, I just don't have a set of wheels.Widows2018

Learn it in full scenes

• Creed2015
  • Adonis Asks Rocky to Train Him
  • Adonis and Bianca's First Date
  • Rocky Agrees to Train Adonis
• American Underdog2021
  • Kurt Warner's Impossible Dream
  • Kurt Learns to Dance for a Girl
  • Kurt Earns Brenda's Name

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• bums on seats
• on the edge of your seat

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