Take it into the wheelhouse

Posted by ESC on March 15, 2004

In Reply to: Lost in the wheelhouse... posted by JW on March 14, 2004

: Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "right in my wheelhouse?"
: Based on context, it seems to mean that something fits comfortably into an individual's area of expertise. I assume the metaphor came to be because the wheelhouse is where one navigates a boat -- i.e., a place where one is in control. Does anyone know how the phrase developed and came to enter common usage?

I don't know. But I read a similar phrase and was wondering what it meant. I am guessing that it has to do with navigation.

TAKE IT INTO THE WHEELHOUSE - ".we're going to take it into this administration's supposed wheelhouse." From "Had Enough: A Handbook for Fighting Back" by James Carville with Jeff Nussbaum (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2003) Page 30.

• Take it into the wheelhouse Brian from Shawnee 15/March/04
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