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noun
1.
the back of the skirt on a man's coat or jacket.
adjective
3.
gained by association with another, especially with a successful or celebrated person: coattail benefits.
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Coattails
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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on someone's coattails, aided by association with another person: The senator rode into office on the President's coattails.
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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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Word Origin & History
coattails
c.1600, from coat + tail. In 17c., to do something on one's own coattail meant "at one's own expense. Meaning "power of one person," especially in politics, is from 1848 (in a Congressional speech by Abraham Lincoln, in reference to Andrew Jackson);
EXPANDexpression riding (someone's) coattails into political office is from 1949.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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