bird-dog
bird-dog
1. To become romantically involved with someone else's significant other, especially when done by a man. I can't believe that guy bird-dogged me and stole my girlfriend!
2. To pay close, usually unwelcome, attention to someone else. Would you quit bird-dogging me and let me work in peace?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
bird-dog
1. tv. to take away another man’s girlfriend. Why’d you have to go and bird-dog me, your best buddy?
2. tv. to supervise someone; to tail someone. Marlowe knew somebody was bird-dogging him, but he was too smart to show it.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- dogged
- empathize
- empathize with
- empathize with (someone or something)
- there are plenty more where he/she/they came from
- ride (one's) coattails
- ride on (one's) coattails
- ride on coattails
- ride on someone's/something's coat-tails
- ride (on) the coattails of (someone)