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in the saddle

in the saddle prepositional phrase: synonym of in control.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Synonym of in control.
    • the pessimism […] in this country was in the saddle even before Saddam Hussein came along1990, December 28 broadcast, PBS Newshour, David Gergen
    Synonyms:
    in control
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: sitting in or on the saddle of a horse or of a motorcycle or bicycle.
    • Once or twice a year, I travelled through France with the dedicatee of this book [Margaret Hambrick, the author's wife] at the speed of a nineteenth-century stagecoach. Cycling not only makes it possible to conduct exhaustive research into local produce, it also creates an enormous appetite for...2007, Graham Robb, “Itinerary”, in The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, W.W. Norton and Company, →ISBN, page 15

Synonyms of in the saddle

Words formed from in the saddle

Questions about in the saddle

What does in the saddle mean?
In the saddle means synonym of in control.
What part of speech is in the saddle?
In the saddle is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the saddle in the dictionary

  1. in the room
  2. in the rough
  3. in the round
  4. in the running
  5. in the sack
  6. in the saddle
  7. in the sales
  8. in the same boat
  9. in the same breath
  10. in the same shoes
  11. in the same vain

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