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Today's Idiom = "Hanging On Your Coattails"






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Hanging On Your Coattails ( try to gain success by following a successful person ... )
"hanging on your coattails"



To hang on to one's coattails is to try to get some of that person's success by following that person. Example: "Doesn't it bother you to have someone like that hanging on to your coattails?"



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Common variations of this idiom: Hanging On Your Coattails, Hang On Someone’s Coattails,
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