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coattails
noun as in good offices
Example Sentences
Britain was "clinging on to the coattails of Uncle Sam" with "crumbs from the Silicon Valley table".
Court documents showed that Mondelēz International said Aldi uses similar packaging likely to "deceive" consumers and "ride the coattails" of the company's "attraction, fame and prestige".
Nor are Christian conservatives merely riding the coattails of charlatans like Kennedy or the Means siblings.
By 2016, these hotel gyms had now become boutiques to Kohli's fitness regime, and the rest of the team followed on his coattails.
What this shows is that for all of the GOP's swaggering braggadocio about their alleged landslide, Trump's win was razor thin in Congress, indicating once more that he has no coattails.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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