I'll ride shotgun and help you navigate.
ride shotgun
idiomTo accompany the driver of a vehicle on a journey as an armed escort (originally with a shotgun); (by extension) to accompany someone in order to assist and protect.
Origin
disputed originPossibly from early-20th-century depictions in books and films of the 19th-century practice of a person armed with a rifle or shotgun riding next to a stagecoach driver to provide protection from bandits, etc.
My brother asked me to ride shotgun on the long drive to keep him awake.
She agreed to ride shotgun on the perilous journey through the mountains, scanning the winding roads ahead for signs of trouble.
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