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| 词汇 | ride coattails |
| 释义 | Idiom ride coattailsride (someone's) coattails to use your connection with someone successful to achieve success yourself.I don't think she would get promoted without riding her boss's coattails.My opponent is riding the coattails of the popular governor of Massachusetts. ride (one's) coattailsTo benefit from someone else's success; to use someone else's success as a means to achieve one's own. Everyone knows you've been riding the governor's coattails for the last two years, but once her term ends you'll be on your own. Jonathan rode the famous professor's coattails to get some recognition for his own work from several esteemed academic journals. |
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