| gen. |
занимать скромное положение; занять скромное положение; стушеваться; садиться; уступить контроль (Occupy an inferior position; allow another to be in control. For example, Linda was content to take a back seat and let Nancy run the meeting. This idiom uses back seat in contrast to the driver's seat, that is, the one in control. Lu4ik); уступить руководство (Lu4ik); выйти в тираж (Anglophile); отойти на задний план (Alexander Demidov); уйти на задний план (1. if an activity takes a back seat, you spend less time doing that than other things. He's been putting all his energies into house-hunting recently so his studies have had to take a back seat. In my early twenties, politics very much took a back seat to sport and socializing. (sometimes + to) 2. to let other people take a more active and responsible part in an organization or a situation. I was content to take a back seat and let the rest of my family deal with the crisis. CI Alexander Demidov); играть "второй скрипкой" (Дмитрий_Р); отходить на задний план (pelipejchenko); дело - сторона; не вмешиваться; держаться нейтралитета; отойти на задний план |
