英语词组on someone's coat-tails是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

Idiom

on someone's coat-tailson (someone's) coat-tails

if you achieve something on someone's coat-tails, you only achieve it because of their help or influence.

She'd risen to fame on the coat-tails of her half-sister.

on (one's) coattails

Benefiting from someone else's success; using someone else's success as a means to achieve one's own. Everyone knows you've been on the governor's coattails these last two years, but once her term ends, you'll be on your own. A: "I can't believe Jonathan got his paper published in that prestigious journal." B: "Oh, it's only because he's on his professor's coattails."

on someone's coat-tails

undeservedly benefiting from another's success.

1964 Economist Mr Robert Kennedy cannot be sure of riding the coat-tails of Mr Johnson in New York.

词组	on someone's coat-tails
释义	Idiom on someone's coat-tailson (someone's) coat-tails if you achieve something on someone's coat-tails, you only achieve it because of their help or influence. She'd risen to fame on the coat-tails of her half-sister. on (one's) coattails Benefiting from someone else's success; using someone else's success as a means to achieve one's own. Everyone knows you've been on the governor's coattails these last two years, but once her term ends, you'll be on your own. A: "I can't believe Jonathan got his paper published in that prestigious journal." B: "Oh, it's only because he's on his professor's coattails." on someone's coat-tails undeservedly benefiting from another's success. 1964 Economist Mr Robert Kennedy cannot be sure of riding the coat-tails of Mr Johnson in New York.
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