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noun Informal.
- an advantageous situation or condition: His appointment as acting dean put him in the catbird seat.
A situation of advantage or superiority, as in His promotion put Charles in the catbird seat. This term is thought to allude to that noisy bird’s habitual high perch. It was popularized in the 1940s by sportscaster Red Barber.
Catbird seat – Wikipedia
The Catbird Seat – Andrew ZimmernAndrew Zimmern
The Catbird Seat by James Thurber
sitting in the catbird seat | sketched out