wheelhouse

American  

[weel-hous, hweel-] / ˈwilˌhaʊs, ˈʰwil- /

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.

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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.

wheelhouse British  

/ ˈwiːlˌhaʊs /

noun

1. another term for pilot house

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Etymology

Origin of wheelhouse

First recorded in 1805–15; wheel + house

Example Sentences

That, of course, is not in this administration’s wheelhouse.

From Salon

Anthropic said modernizing this code—a task that has traditionally fallen in IBM’s wheelhouse—could be done “in quarters instead of years,” potentially disrupting a major revenue stream for IBM.

From Barron's

Some of Black’s outside investments were in funds focused on investing in timber, venture capital and Chinese private equity—areas not generally in Apollo’s wheelhouse at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal

“And in areas of mathematics that were not in my wheelhouse, I felt like the models were already blowing me away.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I am completely out of my wheelhouse publicly, not privately, because I was in improv teams since I was 14.

From Los Angeles Times