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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

riding shotgun with sb

I read somewhere that it means to drive in the front seat of a motor vehicle. I am translating a book in which this metaphore occurred. So I need to know why shotgun is used in this idiom. Do you happen to know?
  

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On the stagecoaches of the old American West (at least according to the many western movies I have seen), a guard armed with a shotgun rode beside the driver.

— Mister Micawber

  • On the stagecoaches of the old American West (at least according to the many western movies I have seen), a guard armed with a shotgun rode beside the driver.
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On the stagecoaches of the old American West (at least according to the many western movies I have seen), a guard armed with a shotgun rode beside the driver.
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Thank zou Mister Micawber. I knew there must be a reason.
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