의미: coattails

coat·tail n.

1 [보통 pl.] 웃옷의 뒷자락 《특히 야회복·모닝코트 등의》

2 《미》 (선거에서) 약한 동료 후보자를 함께 당선시키는 강한 후보자의 힘
on a person's coattails …의 (정치력) 덕분에, …에게 편승하여
on the coattails of …의 뒤를 쫓아서, …덕분으로
ride[hang, climb] on to a person's coattails …의 소매에 매달리다, …에게 편승하다
trail[drag] one's coattails 싸움을 걸다
━ vi. 《미·속어》【음악】 같은 템포를 유지하다
━ a.

1 (유명인의) 은혜를 입은, 편승한

2 (약한 후보자도 함께 당선시킬 수 있는) 강한 후보자의 힘의

coattails 관용구

ride his coattails

depend on his success, use his success My dad was a great doctor, but I don't want to ride his coattails.

ride on one's coattails

Idiom(s): ride on someone's coattails AND hang on someone's coattails

Theme: 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.

hang on one's coattails

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adv. phr. Because of another's merits, success, or popularity. Bob and Jim are best friends. When Jim was invited to join a fraternity, Bob rode in on his coattails. Many people vote straight for all the candidates in the same political party. Most people voted for President K., so Governor B. rode in on K.'s coattails.

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v. phr. To succeed in a certain endeavor by attaching oneself to the greater weight of another person or corporate body. "We will never get our Ph.D. program approved on our own," said the head of the modern dance department, "but we might succeed if we stay in the Division of Fine Arts, riding on their coattails, as it were."

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coattails
see on someone's coattails.

on someone's coattails

on someone's coattails
Also, on the coattails of. Owing to another person's popularity or merits. For example, He won the cabinet post by hanging on the senator's coattails, or He was elected to office on the coattails of the governor. This expression, with its graphic image, dates from the mid-1800s, when coats with tails were in fashion.