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along for the ride
Idioms and Phrases
Participating but not actively, as in Don't ask me how long this job will take; I'm just along for the ride . This metaphoric term often is preceded by just to emphasize the passive role of the “passenger.” [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
She and Aimee arrived in Los Angeles in 1918, the children along for the ride.
Barrister James Holding, representing Sinaj, said his client had "come along for the ride" rather than being the instigator.
Harry Potter has at long last arrived in Los Angeles, and he’s brought his wife and son along for the ride.
While disability is not explicitly mentioned, it sometimes implicitly comes along for the ride whenever accessibility is included in the acronym.
But the musical is really Elphaba’s story, with Grande’s Glinda along for the ride as her best frenemy.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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