Wheelhouse

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“Wheelhouses,” so sayeth Wiktionary, “are the small enclosed parts of a bridge which historically held the ship's steering wheel”. by extension of stone dead metaphor, one’s wheelhouse is one’s area of interest, competence or preference — ones bag, baby—articulated in a way that only an American would not respond to with a roundhouse slap upside the head.


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