follow-my-leader
Britishnoun
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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
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They dance in one by one mysteriously round stage, in follow-my-leader fashion, over chair and stool, and crawl under table, round and round room as they sing.
From Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg
So we set off—a long, straggling, follow-my-leader line of men and stretchers.
One of the curiosities of history was the great game of follow-my-leader, that the whole community used to play.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
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