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2021-11-05 01:11
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?
1. An unlucky situation
2. An interjection used to express sympathy for someone's bad luck
1. I have had some tough beans recently. I got low marks and lost my bike just two days later.
2. A: I've got a low mark.
B: Tough bean, bro.
