"It's in her wheelhouse." "It's out of his wheelhouse." Ok but wtf is a wheelhouse?
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Wait so a wheelhouse is where that round thing to steer a ship w is kept? Up until minute ago I thought it had something to do w a windmill
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People also use wheelhouse for baseball I'm so confused right now I want my mind to go back to the nebulous windmill idea
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So for wheelhouse as a baseball term: you wanna be IN your wheelhouse only to hit the ball and get OUT of your wheelhouse?
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The wheelhouse is a covered portion of a ship where the ship's wheel, used to turn the rudder, is housed.
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I'm a ship buff, in my spare time. I believe the phrase was used to compliment how a sailor handled the ship's wheel.
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It is used as a general idiom for anything that you are particularly good at or specialized in.
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That part I got. I just realized yesterday that I have no idea what an *actual* wheelhouse is...
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you needed to watch "Deadliest Catch" with these crazy Alaskan crab fisherman.
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idioms are weird
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I always thought it was referred to the spinning thing kept inside the boxes of pet hamster for their exercise.
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I always assumed it was a shed where people kept wheels /o\
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this is a very funny convo. In relation to the boat example, it's meant to describe something w/in your reach-what's accessible
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