"take the wheel" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "takes the wheel",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking the wheel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took the wheel",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken the wheel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> the wheel"
      },
      "expansion": "take the wheel (third-person singular simple present takes the wheel, present participle taking the wheel, simple past took the wheel, past participle taken the wheel)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
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          "_dis": "85 15",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "69 31",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Automotive",
          "orig": "en:Automotive",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Can you take the wheel for a minute while I take off my gloves?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be in control of the steering wheel of a vehicle or a vessel."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_the_wheel-en-verb-uZU5J4~x",
      "links": [
        [
          "steering wheel",
          "steering wheel"
        ],
        [
          "vehicle",
          "vehicle"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "90 10",
          "word": "behind the wheel"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be in control of the steering wheel",
          "word": "tarttua rattiin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to be in control of the steering wheel",
          "word": "prendre le volant"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "sestʹ za rulʹ",
          "sense": "to be in control of the steering wheel",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "сесть за руль"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To assume control of a situation."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_the_wheel-en-verb-z4x~ffwG",
      "links": [
        [
          "control",
          "control"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, by extension) To assume control of a situation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take the wheel"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Automotive"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes the wheel",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking the wheel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took the wheel",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken the wheel",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> the wheel"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "behind the wheel"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Can you take the wheel for a minute while I take off my gloves?"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be in control of the steering wheel of a vehicle or a vessel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "steering wheel",
          "steering wheel"
        ],
        [
          "vehicle",
          "vehicle"
        ],
        [
          "vessel",
          "vessel"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To assume control of a situation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "control",
          "control"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, by extension) To assume control of a situation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be in control of the steering wheel",
      "word": "tarttua rattiin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be in control of the steering wheel",
      "word": "prendre le volant"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sestʹ za rulʹ",
      "sense": "to be in control of the steering wheel",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "сесть за руль"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take the wheel"
}