1A passenger in a car who gives the driver unwanted advice.
坐在汽车后座对驾驶员指手画脚的乘客
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I would need a sound proof partition for my passengers, though - I can't stand back seat drivers.
I can't stand back-seat drivers… even worse, passenger-seat drivers.
1.1A person who is eager to give advice about something for which they are not responsible.
不负责任乱提建议的人
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After all, remember how he once described critics as back-seat drivers facing the wrong way, and certainly critics are usually pretty good on the past, moderately good on the present, and helpless and hopeless for the future.
He was also plagued by advisers, officials and politicians, in Delhi who were not just back-seat drivers but wanted to take over the steering wheel themselves.
‘I'll be in the driving seat because it's the only seat to be in,’ he answered a conference delegate who pointedly asked what the candidates thought of back-seat drivers.
He is deluged with advice from back-seat drivers.
She failed to appreciate that the term ‘back-seat driver’, in most people's eyes, was pejorative: she thought it merely indicated helpfulness, whereas others saw it as meddling and controlling.
Derivatives
back-seat driving
noun
informal
But back-seat drivers and back-seat driving are variations of the same expression.
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Whatever assessment one makes of the term of a leader who has enjoyed a long and mostly undisturbed innings, it is less easy to forgive back-seat driving designed to sabotage his or her successor.
How many of us love back-seat driving, even when we love the people who're doing it more than life itself?
If others are riding with you, encourage back-seat driving.
I don't think this particular bit of back-seat driving is correct.