at the wheel

idiom

: while driving
She fell asleep at the wheel.

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But after being pronounced dead following a car accident with a drunk Michael at the wheel, Kimberly disappears, only to return without any of her earlier sweetness, bent on revenge. EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025 On March 26, shortly after 1 a.m., police officers were dispatched to the intersection of Schoolhouse Road and Bridgeport Avenue in Milford on the report of a man sleeping at the wheel. Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025 Cassell had fallen asleep at the wheel, veered off the road and landed in a deep ditch, out of sight of passing motorists. Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025 Meanwhile, Trump, who oversaw the landmark economic normalization deal between Serbia and Kosovo during his first term, was poised to return to power after four years of Joe Biden mostly asleep at the wheel of Balkan policy. Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for at the wheel

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“At the wheel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20the%20wheel. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

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