coat tails

The heritage business is riding the coat-tails of a general boom in domestic tourism, a result of the recession and a weaker pound.

The conductor, too, was kind. Often when he went his rounds I clung to his coat tails while he collected and punched the tickets.

Curbing state companies means taking on all of the well-connected people who ride on their coat-tails, including parts of the middle class.

His temper was as short as his coat-tails. coat-tails.

Some liberals say that more extreme Islamist groups are riding on the more moderate Brothers' coat-tails.

He sat and smiled , and the water dripped off his coat tails . Mrs. Tittlemouse went round with a mop .

Democrats riding on his coat-tails swept four of the five other statewide races.

Disdain for holier-than-thou lefties who ride their husbands' coat-tails to power and wealth.

The slide in emerging stock markets on Wall Street's coat-tails appears to endorse their view.

She got where she is today on her brother's coat-tails.

I will know what it is like to walk in another person's shoes. Some of my friends got rich by riding someone else's coat tails.

scraping its wings with its hind legs and smoothing them to its body as if they had been coat-tails;

wind blowing flag in one direction, coat tails in the other;

run on the coat-tails of