Etymology Journal · N
Not in my wheelhouse
Meaning
- This means a task or subject is outside of your expertise or comfort zone. You are admitting you are not the right person to handle it.
Professional, modest
Used in a sentence
- Fixing the plumbing is not really in my wheelhouse, so you should call a professional.
- I can help with the writing, but the accounting is just not in my wheelhouse.
- Advanced physics is definitely not in my wheelhouse.
The backstory
This comes from baseball, where the wheelhouse is the area over home plate where a batter has the most power to hit a home run. Over time, it came to mean any area of personal expertise.
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