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idiomon sb's coat-tails(also ride (on) sb's coat-tails)used in order to say that someone or something is able to be successful only because of the success of another person or thing:Starkey was one of several local politicians who achieved office on the governor's coat-tails.My dad is a sports columnist, and I didn't want to ride his coattails into newspaper journalism.Communists feared that if the prince regained power, corruption would return on his coat-tails.
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