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at the wheel

at the wheel prepositional phrase: driving; in control of a vehicle.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Driving; in control of a vehicle.
    • It is a shame: his first day driving and he falls asleep at the wheel.
  2. (idiomatic) In control of the situation; in charge.
    • We were thriving when Bill was at the wheel, but since the new CEO has started things have been going south.

at the wheel meaning in Malayalam

at the wheel in Malayalam

driving, steering, in the driving setat
വളയത്തിനു പുറകിൽ, വണ്ടി ഓടിക്കൽ, വളയം തിരിക്കൽ, വളയം തിരിച്ചു വാഹനം നിയന്ത്രിക്കൽ, വാഹനം ഓടിക്കൽ, തെളിക്കൽ

Synonyms of at the wheel

Questions about at the wheel

What does at the wheel mean?
At the wheel means driving; in control of a vehicle.
What is at the wheel in Malayalam?
At the wheel in Malayalam is വളയത്തിനു പുറകിൽ, വണ്ടി ഓടിക്കൽ, വളയം തിരിക്കൽ. See At the wheel meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is at the wheel?
At the wheel is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at the wheel in the dictionary

  1. at the top of the heap
  2. at the top of the pile
  3. at the top of the tree
  4. at the very least
  5. at the very most
  6. at the wheel
  7. at the whim of
  8. at the worst
  9. at third hand
  10. at this juncture
  11. at this moment in time

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: at the wheel (page history and authors); at the wheel (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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