1617: wheelhouse May 19, 2019

For something to be "in your wheelhouse", it is something in which you have knowledge, control, or ease in doing. Going off the obviously compounded name, and it is easy to see how this term could have originated as a nautical term. On a boat, a wheelhouse is the control center, though not the command center, as that's the bridge. Indeed, the term began to denote a simple wooden box used to cover the steering wheel whoever manned it from the elements. Thus, something in the wheelhouse was something easily controlled.
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