coattails

Idioms and Phrases

see on someone's coattails .

Example Sentences

She is able to create coattails for down-ballot races and to change the narrative frame of politics.

From The Daily Beast

On the other, if he squeaks out a victory in a GOP wave year, Republicans may be skeptical that he has coattails.

From The Daily Beast

Not only are they riding the coattails of men, but they are no longer even with these men.

From The Daily Beast

The numbers will ride, as it were, on the coattails of the vision.

From The Daily Beast

Presidents rarely have substantial coattails during their re-election efforts, but often have them in their first election.

From The Daily Beast

Mr. Wicker soon stopped, however, and reached back into the pocket in the flap of his coattails.

From Project Gutenberg

We saw his long coattails disappear round the corner of an alley that led down to the harbour.

From Project Gutenberg

He came towards them at an amble, scratching actively behind his coattails.

From Project Gutenberg

He bustled off in the direction taken by Mr Miller, his coattails flying behind him.

From Project Gutenberg

Zo seconded the invitation by hiding the stick, and laying hold again on her big friend's coattails.

From Project Gutenberg