coat-tail

British  

noun

1. the long tapering tails at the back of a man's tailed coat

2. thanks to the popularity or success of someone else

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Example Sentences

What exactly is “the rear coat-tail pocket” of a “full dress suit?”

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2018

The revival had a coat-tail effect for the shows that followed, significantly boosting viewership for Black-ish and helping to launch new the Jenna Fischer-Oliver Hudson comedy Splitting Up Together.

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2018

One reason is the coat-tail effect: huge corporate sponsors setting up expensive stages and inviting superstar artists to perform.

From Chicago Tribune • Mar. 16, 2014

Wen Linkin got thru, I pulled him by the coat-tail, an ses I, "Kernel, Seward himself could not have beat that non-committal speech."

From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba

He insisted that such men were weak creatures, who, to use his own language, "hoped to secure a law practice by hanging to his coat-tail."

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.