coattails

Example Sentences

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Britain was "clinging on to the coattails of Uncle Sam" with "crumbs from the Silicon Valley table".

From BBC

Court documents showed that Mondelēz International said Aldi uses similar packaging likely to "deceive" consumers and "ride the coattails" of the company's "attraction, fame and prestige".

From BBC

Nor are Christian conservatives merely riding the coattails of charlatans like Kennedy or the Means siblings.

From Salon

By 2016, these hotel gyms had now become boutiques to Kohli's fitness regime, and the rest of the team followed on his coattails.

From BBC

What this shows is that for all of the GOP's swaggering braggadocio about their alleged landslide, Trump's win was razor thin in Congress, indicating once more that he has no coattails.

From Salon