pick a lane

present singular third person picks a lane · participle present picking a lane · participle past picked a lane · past picked a lane

1. To commit to an approach to something.

   But I'm also left kind of wishing that Titans would just pick a lane and determine whether it wants to be about the team or just be a Nightwing show.

   2018 November 16, Mike Cecchini, “Titans Episode 6 Review: Jason Todd”, in Den of Geek

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   "We both looked at the business and said, 'You know what? We still have over 100 million people using us worldwide. We have to pick a lane as to what we're going to be,'" Hirschhorn said.

   2010, Jason Hirschhorn, quoted in Dawn C. Chmielewski and Jessica Guynn, "MySpace looks to the past for its future", Los Angeles Times (March 10, 2010), p. B3

   It's going to be interesting because not only do teams sort of have to pick a lane in terms of whether they are buyers or sellers, but the sellers basically have to get their work done sooner rather than later.

   2019 June 11, Jared Wyllys, “The White Sox Could Take A Different Approach To This Trade Deadline”, in Forbes