wheelhouse
Americannoun
plural
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an area of expertise: Critical thinking is the wheelhouse of the liberal arts.
This product plays directly into marketing’s wheelhouse.
Critical thinking is the wheelhouse of the liberal arts.
idioms
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in the same wheelhouse, very similar and usually in the same category.
The two folk singers are in the same wheelhouse.
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in one’s wheelhouse,
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Baseball. (of a pitch) within the zone that is most advantageous for a batter to hit a home run.
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within one’s area of expertise or interest.
There are some subjects that are in your wheelhouse and some that are not.
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noun
Etymology
Origin of wheelhouse
Example Sentences
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That, of course, is not in this administration’s wheelhouse.
From Salon
Anthropic said modernizing this code—a task that has traditionally fallen in IBM’s wheelhouse—could be done “in quarters instead of years,” potentially disrupting a major revenue stream for IBM.
From Barron's
Some of Black’s outside investments were in funds focused on investing in timber, venture capital and Chinese private equity—areas not generally in Apollo’s wheelhouse at the time.
“And in areas of mathematics that were not in my wheelhouse, I felt like the models were already blowing me away.”
I am completely out of my wheelhouse publicly, not privately, because I was in improv teams since I was 14.
From Los Angeles Times
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