wheelhouse

[weel-hous, hweel-]

noun

plural

wheelhouses 

1. pilothouse.

2. an area of expertise: Critical thinking is the wheelhouse of the liberal arts.

   This product plays directly into marketing’s wheelhouse.

   Critical thinking is the wheelhouse of the liberal arts.

wheelhouse

/ ˈwiːlˌhaʊs /

noun

1. another term for pilot house

Word History and Origins

Origin of wheelhouse¹

First recorded in 1805–15; wheel + house

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. in the same wheelhouse, very similar and usually in the same category.

   The two folk singers are in the same wheelhouse.

2. in one’s wheelhouse,

   1. Baseball. (of a pitch) within the zone that is most advantageous for a batter to hit a home run.

   2. within one’s area of expertise or interest.

      There are some subjects that are in your wheelhouse and some that are not.

Example Sentences

R2-D2, among other functions, automatically scans the vast startup market for companies in Touring’s wheelhouse: AI startups on the verge of raising Series B financing.

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He loves math, statistics and sports, so becoming someone who analyzes sports data is in his wheelhouse.

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I would love to know as much as my chef friends know because they can reference a spice, or they can think of something that might be good that wouldn’t even be in my wheelhouse.

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That is my wheelhouse, and Paul fit right in, except he was an icon.

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The theme - Superfine: Tailoring Black Style - was "completely in my wheelhouse", he says, as it looked at the way that style formed black identities.

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