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on the coat·tails

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  1. on the coattails, one one's coattailsadverb

    immediately following or undeservedly benefiting from

    "the CEO resigned on the coattails of the scandal"; "he was elected on his predecessor's coattails"

    Synonyms:
    one one's coattails

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  1. Clarence S. Darrow:

    Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.

  2. Jon Ausman:

    Presidential candidates have coattails; congressional candidates do not, but more money may be spent on field operations.

  3. Renato Reyes:

    To stand up to China, we need to develop our economy and our capacity for external defense, we can't do this by hanging on the coattails of Uncle Sam.

  4. Raymond Moore:

    In my next life when I come back I want to be someone in the WTA, because they ride on the coattails of the men, they don't make any decisions and they are lucky.

  5. H. L. Mencken:

    Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

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