follow-my-leader

British  

noun

1. US, Canadian, and Irish name: follow-the-leader.  a game in which the players must repeat the actions of the leader

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follow-my-leader

But the race has tended to become follow-my-leader, with drivers controlling their pace to make sure their tyres reach the ideal time to make a pit stop.

From BBC ● May 23, 2025

“I’d have just played follow-my-leader after Jamie all the way to Paris if you hadn’t reminded me to turn.”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

The needle dips and pokes, the cheerful thread Runs after, follow-my-leader down the seam: The patchwork pieces cry for joy together, O soon to sit as a crown on Dinda's head, Fulfilment of their dream.

From Georgian Poetry 1920-22 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

The time had now come when he was to match wits with Lynch in the old game of follow-my-leader and, even with the Indian to do Lynch’s tracking, he had no fears for the outcome.

From Wunpost by Coolidge, Dane

I recall an amusing instance of this "follow-my-leader" motive which occurred many years ago in a way somewhat personal to myself, in southern Kentucky.

From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate