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ride on someone's something's coat tails Idiome
can't make heads or tails of something
heads or tails
ride his coattails
bangtails
ride on one's coattails
Idiom(s): ride on someone's coattails AND hang on someone's coattailsTheme: FOLLOWING
to make one's good fortune or success depend on another person. (Also with else, as in the examples.)
• Bill isn't very creative, so he rides on John's coattails.
• Some people just have to hang on somebody else's coattails.
go into a tailspin
Idiom(s): go into a tailspinTheme: WORSEN
[for someone] to become disoriented or panicked; [for someone's life] to fall apart. (Informal.)
• Although John was a great success, his life went into a tailspin.
• After her father died, Mary's world fell apart, and she went into a tailspin.
can't make heads or tails of
Idiom(s): can't make heads or tails (out) of sb or sthTheme: UNDERSTANDING
[to be] unable to understand someone or something. (Also with cannot.)
• John is so strange. I can't make heads or tails of him.
• Do this report again. I can't make heads or tails out of it.
hang on one's coattails
Idiom(s): ride on someone's coattails AND hang on someone's coattailsTheme: FOLLOWING
to make one's good fortune or success depend on another person. (Also with else, as in the examples.)
• Bill isn't very creative, so he rides on John's coattails.
• Some people just have to hang on somebody else's coattails.
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n., dialect A person who is behind others. John was the cow's tail at the exam. Fred was always the old cow's tail for football practice.go into a tailspin|go|go into a nose dive|nose div
v. phr., informal To fall or go down badly; collapse; give up trying. The team went into a tailspin after their captain was hurt, and they were badly beaten. 2. informal To become very anxious, confused, or mentally sick; give up hope. The man went into a tailspin after his wife died and he never got over it.More Idioms/Phrases
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