People love cars and they love cruising, and in the past hundred years we’ve developed numerous idioms for driving. We use many in the car, and some have moved beyond driving to other subjects.

What does it mean if I’m a backseat driver? Do I have really long arms that can reach the steering wheel? And how can we say someone is asleep at the wheel if the person is not even in a car?

Let’s look at some common idioms and phrasal verbs that you might use in the car—or at work or school, or on the golf course …

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as just the Bay Bridge, is one of two major bridges that cross the bay into San Francisco.