wheelhouse

[ weel-hous, hweel- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural wheel·hous·es [weel, -hou-ziz, hweel, -].

pilothouse ( def ).
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 /

First recorded in 1805–15; wheel + house

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.
in the same wheelhouse, very similar and usually in the same category:
The two folk singers are in the same wheelhouse.

Despite carving himself a successful niche in the teen idol wheelhouse, he was eager to throw dirt on that image.

Your brother, the serial killer of serial killers, is right in your wheelhouse.

The argument over taxes and entitlement programs is tailor-made for Cavuto, whose wheelhouse is financial news.

Economic management, Romney likes to say, is his “wheelhouse.”

As an historian, Lepore finds the cause of Tea Party well inside her own wheelhouse.

In addition to these at least two more had been blooded in the scrimmage at close quarters outside the wheelhouse.

I looked up hastily to see Bothwell's malevolent face in the wheelhouse window.

Eyes wide and mouth agape, he was standing near the wheelhouse.

I was just backing into the wheelhouse again when there was a flash and a roar.

We gave the Skippers voice time to reach the wheelhouse, and then saw the wake visibly tauten out.

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