coat Идиома

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.

coat and tie

Idiom(s): coat and tie

Theme: CLOTHING

[for men] a jacket or sports coat and necktie. (A standard of dress between casual and a suit. Fixed order.)
• My brother was not wearing a coat and tie, and they would not admit him into the restaurant.
• I always carry a coat and tie in my car just in case I have to dress up a little for something.

hang on one's coattails

Cut your coat according to your cloth

If you cut your coat according to your cloth, you only buy things that you have sufficient money to pay for.

Fur coat and no knickers

Someone with airs and graces, but no real class is fur coat and no knickers.

Trail your coat

If you trail your coat, you act in a provocative way.

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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."

coattail

coattail
ride on someone's coattails
or hang on someone's coattails
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to have one's success dependent on that of someone else

coattails

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.