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coat-trailing
[ koht-trey-ling ]
noun
, British.
- behavior that is deliberately provocative.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of coat-trailing1
First recorded in 1925–30; from the phrase trail one's coat, provoking someone to step on it
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Example Sentences
There was nothing in all the world but whiteness, and a silly old bodach with a red coat trailing across it.
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