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Idioms and Phrases
Idioms
- on someone's coattails, aided by association with another person:
The senator rode into office on the president's coattails.
- on the coattails of, immediately after or as a result of:
His decline in popularity followed on the coattails of the scandal.
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Example Sentences
He moved off, his coattail bobbing oddly about his hips and his back bowed.
From Project Gutenberg
Only the weight of the lumps of metal dangling in his coattail pocket kept him from collapsing.
From Project Gutenberg
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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