ride (one's) coattails
ride (one's) coattails
To benefit from someone else's success; to use someone else's success as a means to achieve one's own. Everyone knows you've been riding the governor's coattails for the last two years, but once her term ends you'll be on your own. Jonathan rode the famous professor's coattails to get some recognition for his own work from several esteemed academic journals.
See also: coattail, ride
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- ride on (one's) coattails
- ride on coattails
- ride on someone's/something's coat-tails
- ride (on) the coattails of (someone)
- on the coattails of
- on the coattails of (someone)
- on the coat-tails of someone/something
- on somebody's coat-tails
- on someone's coattails
- on someone's coat-tails