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2021-11-06 11:11
Ride on (one's) coattails phrase
`Coat-tails' is usually written as `coattails' in American English.
To take advantage of someone else's success to achieve your own.
I feel like I don't deserve such high praise because I just rode on John's cocktails all along the process.
Riding on someone else's cocktails is not what I like to do. I'm more of a person who prefers achieving things from scratch.
The verb "ride" must be conjugated according to its tense.
The idiom first appeared around 1600 in a different form, "on one’s own coattail."
Do you see anything wrong?
Indicates that something which initially seems bad but harmless can become much worse in the future or lead to a harmful development
Those pharmacies have put the price of face masks up. It'll be the thin end of the wedge, if others follow along.
