trail

blaze a trail: seeblaze.

trail (or drag) your coat deliberately provoke a quarrel or fight.

☞ If you trail your coat behind you someone is likely to step on it, either intentionally or unintentionally, so enabling you to pick a fight. This behaviour was traditionally associated with Irishmen at Donnybrook Fair, an annual fair once held in what is now a suburb of Dublin. Charlotte M. Yonge, in the novel Womankind (1877), alludes to this association: 'Party spirit is equally ready to give offence and to watch for it. It will trail its coat like the Irishman in the fair.'

1980James DittonCopley's Hunch I was trailing my coat…Trying to get the Luftwaffe to come up and fight.

词组	trail
释义	trail blaze a trail: seeblaze. trail (or drag) your coat deliberately provoke a quarrel or fight. ☞ If you trail your coat behind you someone is likely to step on it, either intentionally or unintentionally, so enabling you to pick a fight. This behaviour was traditionally associated with Irishmen at Donnybrook Fair, an annual fair once held in what is now a suburb of Dublin. Charlotte M. Yonge, in the novel Womankind (1877), alludes to this association: 'Party spirit is equally ready to give offence and to watch for it. It will trail its coat like the Irishman in the fair.' 1980James DittonCopley's Hunch I was trailing my coat…Trying to get the Luftwaffe to come up and fight.
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