wheelhouse

[ weel-hous, hweel- ]

noun

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

1. pilothouse ( def ).
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 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.

2. in the same wheelhouse, very similar and usually in the same category:

   The two folk singers are in the same wheelhouse.

Example Sentences

It can also ensure that you’re not taking on projects that aren’t in your wheelhouse.

From Search Engine Land

City Slickers was really fun because it was so out of my wheelhouse to become as good on a horse as I became, which is a crazy story.

From Ozy

Future workshops with more depth on security topics may divulge additional details given the distance in time from that particular incident and because information security is in our wheelhouse.

From Search Engine Land

I know that hiking and outdoor stuff isn’t really in her wheelhouse, but she’s told me multiple times she’d be fine with taking a camping trip as long as I’m the one who does the bulk of the planning, since it’s my area of expertise.

From Outside Online

Ling told Term Sheet he will stick with his wheelhouse of subscription-based businesses and mobile marketplaces.

From Fortune

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg