Examples of 'coattails' in a sentence
Meaning of "coattails"
coattails refer to the bottom back portion of a coat or jacket that extends beyond the waist. The phrase 'riding on someone's coattails' is a metaphorical expression meaning to benefit from someone else's success or good fortune
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- plural of coattail
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of coattail
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coattails
I rode your coattails for forty years.
The son of a bitch came in on our coattails.
To ride our coattails right onto that stage.
All you gotta do is hang onto my coattails.
On the coattails of science came technology.
You have been riding on my coattails my whole life.
Coattails of a popular leader of a national party.
A peon latching onto the coattails of others.
He could be putting up competing units and riding in on our coattails.
I could not ride her coattails forever.
You are just an insignificant little boy trying to ride my coattails.
Chavez would ride on the coattails of the masses.
I am doing all the work and you are just riding my coattails.
I am gonna ride your coattails to glory.
But you have managed to make an entire career riding on my coattails.
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Just ride on my parents coattails and all that.
After you have gone to the top riding on her coattails.
That would be riding on the coattails of another great cause.
Cut loose the deadweight from his coattails.
On the coattails of them.
I do not need you riding my coattails.
Riding the coattails of some successful cultural phenomenon is not gonna cut it.
All you got to do is hang on at my coattails.
I do not want you hanging on my coattails from morning till night.
You got all your clients off of my coattails.
He was not the only billionaire whose coattails investors were riding yesterday.
I do not need someone hanging on to my coattails.
You can either ride their coattails or you can ride mine.
We sort of figured on hanging on to your coattails.
And those were some pretty great coattails to jump on my first time out.
You can not just keep riding on my coattails.
Riding his coattails out the prison door is exactly what he intends to do.
All you all are riding my coattails.
Allowing bitcoin to ride the coattails of the blockchain technology is misleading at best.
You can ride his coattails.
Riding on the coattails of his father Andrew.
Stop hanging off coattails.
The president 's coattails are not what they used to be.
I am not riding her coattails.
You can either ride their coattails or you can ride mine You decide.
You guys were riding my coattails.
The president 's coattails will have room for you.
I just rode his coattails.
The president 's coattails are gonna have room for you.
He pulled the vanished rabbit from the coattails of a spectator.
What? Riding the coattails of some successful cultural phenomenon is not gonna cut it.
People hanging on his coattails already.
He was well known as a land developer and many tried to follow on his coattails.
Others prefer to ride on the coattails of the bigger.
You may even begin to resent your colleagues for riding your coattails.
