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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- on someone's coattails, aided by association with another person:
The senator rode into office on the president's coattails.
- on the coattails of, immediately after or as a result of:
His decline in popularity followed on the coattails of the scandal.
Example Sentences
What this shows is that for all of the GOP's swaggering braggadocio about their alleged landslide, Trump's win was razor thin in Congress, indicating once more that he has no coattails.
Some Democrats, however, are worried that Harris' money flood is overshadowing tepid fundraising by down-ballot candidates and committees focused on state legislative races, and it's unclear how long her coattails are.
鈥淭he other thing is the resiliency and the availability of the infrastructure. Cloud providers have designed and architected their infrastructure really well. We can ride on the coattails of their innovation.鈥
鈥淏ut somebody鈥檚 going to see it as an opportunity, then I鈥檓 sure people will follow on their coattails.鈥
To get there, Corder says, astronomers want to 鈥渞ide on the coattails鈥 of quantum technologies developed for other uses.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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