pick a lane

English

Verb

pick a lane (third-person singular simple present picks a lane, present participle picking a lane, simple past and past participle picked a lane)

1. To commit to an approach to something.
   • 2010, Jason Hirschhorn, quoted in Dawn C. Chmielewski and Jessica Guynn, "MySpace looks to the past for its future", The Los Angeles Times (March 10, 2010), p. B3:

     "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.

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

     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.

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

     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.