sit shotgun
sit shotgun
To ride in the front passenger seat of a car. An allusion to stage coaches in the 19th-century US, which were often protected from outlaws by someone who sat wielding a shotgun next to the driver. Mom, Jake got to sit shotgun this morning—it's my turn! OK, let's get back on the road. Who wants to sit shotgun?
See also: shotgun, sit
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- call shotgun
- end game
- Earth to (someone)
- earth to someone
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- fight hammer and tongs
- haf
- exit
- exit stage left