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coat-tail
noun
- the long tapering tails at the back of a man's tailed coat
- on someone's coat-tailsthanks to the popularity or success of someone else
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Depositing her tenderly upon a pile of hot bricks, he mopped his steaming front with his warm coat-tail.
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He sits wi' little ease wha sits on his neighbour's coat tail.
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I carried five messages to one fellow with a coat-tail straight to his heels, last week.
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Then he again uttered an exclamation, for a bounding cannon ball—ricochetting from the deck—took off the end of his coat-tail.
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I had sold two dozen at fifty cents apiece when I felt somebody pull my coat tail.
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