follow the leader

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noun

a child's game in which players, one behind the other, follow a leader and must repeat or follow everything he or she does.

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TAKE JOY IN ACING THIS QUIZ ON “PRIDE” SYNONYMS

Hold your head up high as you embark on this quiz that explores some of the synonyms and meanings of “pride.”

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What does "dignity" mean?

Origin of follow the leader

First recorded in 1825–35

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Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
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Their leader, Njie, still going by “Dave” during the operation, would stay a safe distance away until the State House was secure.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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Dockier, a prominent leader of the Levelers, in the times of the English commonwealth, was shot by order of the government.
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In 1856 she married Mesdag, who, rather late in life decided to follow the career of a painter.
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You will follow the suite of my daughter to Spain, and you will become the bosom Counsellor of the wife of your Prince?
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Every leader was killed, and every peaceful native whom the Spaniards met on their way was unmercifully treated.
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